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    "id": 386416,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abdirahman",
    "speaker_title": "The Senator for Wajir County",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 161,
        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
        "slug": "abdirahman-ali-hassan"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for seeing me at last, as tall as I am and having been sitting at the Front Bench, I have not been able to catch the Speaker’s eye between 9.00 am and 4.30 pm. Nonetheless, I want to start to contribute to the Motion regarding the Presidential Address. I want to start off, just as my colleague said, by thanking the people of Wajir County for having elected me as their first County Senator under the new constitutional dispensation. I promise to ensure that Wajir County becomes a model county in terms of development; a model county that will make a difference in the lives of people in Wajir so that we move at par with the people in the rest of the country. As I sat here since morning, I listened to a number of colleagues who spoke. Some of them, from the Jubilee Coalition, seem to be getting agitated when people speak, somehow about issues that relate to certain inadequacies with regard to this Speech. In fact, it is our role, as the Senate to interrogate this document. What we are doing is to interrogate the document and not creating or preparing faults on the part of any leadership. As the Opposition, we are expected to do constructive criticism of this document. It is only through that approach that we can enrich what has been put here so that Kenyans, wherever they are, feel satisfied with the legislation or policy issues and that our various interests are taken care of. Having said that, I ran through the Speech and I have a number of comments to make. Two or three days ago when we were in Naivasha, there were some discussions on the structure of Government. I have, personally, a bone to pick with that structure. I think that is what resulted in the failure of those who developed this document to incorporate the livestock sector. You all know that we had a stand alone Ministry of Livestock Development and the Ministry of the Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands which was also a stand alone through that blotted Government. I personally did not agree with the kind of blotted Government that we had. As much as I support a lean Government, which I feel will be much more efficient, I feel that there are serious imbalances in terms of developing this country. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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