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    "id": 1502720,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502720/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
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    "content": "As we talk today, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) accounts show that the Wajir County Government has Kshs2.6 billion lying in their account. Kisii County has Kshs6.7 billion lying in CBK. Nandi County has Kshs2 billion lying in CBK yet the Chairperson of the Council of Governors (CoG) is telling the country there is no money yet money for Wajir County worth Kshs2.6 billion is lying in the CBK accounts. The people of Wajir County do not have drugs and cannot access roads. Even in Nandi County, we have Kshs2 billion in the CBK accounts yet the governor is busy lamenting, perambulating, and talking at funerals, giving out handouts, and buying jembe sticks and machetes. It is as if we are giving them money to prepare for war. I feel embarrassed, and I want to tell the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, that some of us in Nandi no longer believe in security agencies' functionality. Someone was arrested when we went to occupy the Nandi County Assembly because of the Ad Hoc Report, which stated that Governor Sang could not account for more than Kshs10 billion worth of projects. A senior official within Nandi County Executive was arrested with machetes and jembes. The only thing that the police did in Nandi was to give him lovey-davies. As we talk today, one young man by the name of Digitaro was attacked in Nandi Hills Town. The person who attacked him is a governor's goon who is yet to be arrested. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officer (DCIO) and Inspector General Douglas Kanja are doing nothing about it. Goonism in Nandi is the order of the day. Anybody I saw, even at Dr. Ondare's father’s funeral, that goons have taken over funeral services in Kisii County. It is unfortunate, and I saw Sen. Onyonka and Hon. Doñya. We are not appropriating monies to counties to run goons. I am embarrassed and disappointed by the Nandi County Security Team. You can even check in the media; there were goons, allegedly sponsored by the governor, carrying jembe sticks and machetes on camera. The Nandi County Security Team, led by the county commander, has never arrested anybody. What are you telling us? Why are we appropriating this money if goons are walking around? You cannot ask questions. The moment in Nandi you try and question--- I saw a young girl called Vero being threatened. Another young man called Basil was also threatened. I have told you of a young man called Digitaro. He was attacked in broad daylight in Nandi Hills Town, 50 metres from Nandi Hills Police Station. No one has been arrested, even though the person who did that is known. You saw yesterday in Turkana County that despite the county receiving over Kshs100 billion--- When it rained in Turkana yesterday, Turkana County Referral Hospital was flooded because of poor workmanship yet the Governor of Turkana, from the reliable intelligence I have, whenever he goes to funerals, dishes out Kshs1,000 to the people of Turkana. It was reported in the news that in Turkana, a Form Four graduate was dispensing medicine. What are you telling us? What are the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) doing? What is the DCI doing? If a Form Four graduate somewhere in Turkana is dispensing medicine, and we are sitting here as a Senate as if 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."
}