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    "id": 1570246,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1570246/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "What is more? It was based on Nairobi, yet Nairobi is one of the counties sharing with other counties. If, for example, this formula was being applied in the United States of America, it would have been easier for somebody from Pennsylvania, knowing that it was being based on Washington DC, to understand because in the United States of America, Washington DC is not regarded at the same level like the other states. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said this, with due respect, all politics is local. I, therefore, would like to speak my locality. When devolution came, there are a few of us, and I am glad that the Speaker, Sen. Mungatana and Sen. Oburu Odinga were there. That is as many as we were, at that time. There are those of us who believed, and we ended up being in the minority, that what we needed was to create economically viable units so much so that, at that time, we were talking about a maximum of 14 counties. Well, the emotions of, “we do not want our community to be in the same county with this community, or we want our community to have its own county, or we want our community to have so many counties”, carried the day. However, today, in the third cycle of devolution, we are now realizing that bigger economic blocs present better viabilities for our counties than the smaller ones. This morning, the Senator of Vihiga County, while you were away, I remembered how, out of the blue, Vihiga County was hived out of Kakamega County. We never told them."
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