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    "id": 1495009,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495009/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Nyamira who went to the United States of America (USA). She has worked so hard, campaigned and got the honour of being elected to be a Member of the State Assembly of the State of Minnesota. I hope that this broad-based Government will now build for us Suneka airport. If not, the people of Nyamira are ready and willing to donate land to the national Government to build an airport for us. This lady will rise to become a Senator and maybe the first female President of the USA, just like Obama did from our neighbouring County of Siaya. Hon. (Dr.) Khalwale, this lady will rise to become a great person in the USA. We congratulate her. I make a special appeal to other Kenyans who have migrated to other nations like Australia, United Kingdom (UK) or Canada, to borrow from the example of this young lady. Let them go into the political space, seek for elective offices and make our country proud. We will organize a big homecoming for our daughter the way Obama was received in Siaya. The people of Nyamira must also receive their daughter in the great County of Nyamira. I will invite the Senators when we bring her home. We will slaughter bulls, goats, chicken and matoke will be served in plenty. Before that happens, we shall send a delegation to Minnesota to go and congratulate our daughter who has done us proud. I hope that next time, we will be celebrating a daughter from our neighbouring county, Kericho or Kakamega County. That is how we want it to be. We want Kenyans out there to shine. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill is dear to many of us. Two weeks ago, you saw the kind of chaos that we had in Nyamira County. The MCAs were trying to impeach their speaker, but it did not work. The house of an hon. MCA from Bomwagamo Ward was set on fire. A watchman guarding the premises of the County Assembly of Nyamira was attacked, beaten and doused with paraffin. He has been nursing injuries at the Nyamira Referral Hospital. This is because of the idea of a governor who wants to have MCAs to be at his mercy. That is not what devolution was meant to do. Let us borrow the structure that we have. Our PSC is detached from the executive. We do not go begging from the executive; we appropriate our money and run our affairs. You can imagine a situation where any time MCAs want to make a payment have to go and beg at the county treasury. If you are not in good books with your governor, you will be on the queue for a long time before your bills are settled. How do you get into the bad books of a governor? By trying to oversight him and put him on toes. There are others who will tell you that their “human hair can never be shaken” I do not know how to translate it. My governor says, “ tuki telikunyekeria ”. That means nothing can make his human hair to shake. He tells that to MCAs when they are asking why there is no medicine in hospital? It means, “my human hair cannot be shaken because people have no drugs in hospital.” People go to hospital to get treatment, but find clinic officers on strike. He tells them that his human hair will not shake in his head. He thinks he is controlling all the money that goes to Nyamira County. That it is meant to go to his own pocket. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
}