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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Sometimes it is so difficult to think in vernacular, then speak in English. I was thinking in Kiluhya. In Luhya culture, a younger brother like this one is always your baby, so sometimes I forget that he is a Senator because he is my younger brother. It was a statement of love. Senator for Nairobi City County, you will be amused because some of the people insisted this should not be the case. No sooner was oil discovered in Turkana than they ran and bought blocks of land in there. They did this hoping to become property owners in speculation that oil would be struck in the block they had bought. These ignored counties that we have, I have named some, resources will fall there and we shall all be running there or depending on them. This is because they will be the prime movers of the economy of the Republic of Kenya. Having said that, I want to amplify my thoughts on an independent National Treasury. We should make the National Treasury independent, so that no phone call comes from the Office of the President, the Senate or any other powerful Ministry; either the Prime Cabinet Secretary or the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, to force them to push money to some areas simply because development is expected to follow power. We would like development in this country to follow meritocracy. If it did, the shock I received this morning, from which I am still reeling, would not have occurred. Cabinet Secretary sat two months ago and announced that the road from Rironi to Nakuru, Mau Summit, Eldoret, Kaburengu, Webuye, Pukandwi, up to Malaba would be a dual carriage. Today, the Cabinet Secretary has told the people of Western Province that the goalposts have since shifted to the extent that now the dual carriage will stop at Mau Summit. The budget meant to push it to Malaba will now be used to do a detour to Mai Mahiu and hopefully Narok or elsewhere. I did not want to tell the Cabinet Secretary because I would have been out of order, as I have no facts. However, could it be that the all-powerful Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport comes from Bomet and that is why he wants part of the pie to be detoured to go to his side instead of Malaba? This decision will have to be reviewed and possibly reversed."
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