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    "id": 1570295,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang",
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    "content": "Senator for Nairobi or Senator for Machakos, you have your people who are in Elgeyo Marakwet County, for example. They need to benefit; they need to get development. They need to have good hospitals; they need to have medicine in these particular hospitals. So, that is what we are saying. Let us reason together and have something that is agreeable and acceptable. This is the formula that will take us for the next five years. I also agree that we need to be serious. We cannot accept the Kshs405 billion that is proposed by the National Treasury and the National Assembly. We need to move to the Kshs465 billion so that when we are putting our governors to task, on accountability, at least they have some reasonable resources to do something for us. Please, let us debate. Let us be sober as brothers and sisters, to ensure that we treat all our citizens equally. Otherwise, some of us are really completely disadvantaged. This is because even when we get the oversight funds, what am I going to oversight in Elgeyo-Marakwet County? I will check on how Early Childhood and Development Education Centres (ECDEs) are being built. How much are they spending to do twin classrooms? I urge all members to sit together, reason, agree and give us affirmative action. The proposal of Kshs2 billion, that is a start. We want to begin from the Kshs2 billion. Can we improve it? Can we push it? Say Kshs4 billion or Kshs4.7 billion and then from there, we also do not have to take a lot of time talking. The biggest challenge, as the Speaker has said is that we have been conversing for the last one month. Why are we waiting? You know the Kenyan mentality, we always like the last minute. Even if you give us another time, we do not meet until the last minute again. Let us meet today, discuss, agree and then we pass the Motion and discuss other many things. This is because there are very many other pressing issues that we need to discuss as Kenyans. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you. I reserve my support for the Motion. I will support it with amendments if Elgeyo-Marakwet County at least get Kshs6 billion, so that something can be done for my people."
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