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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also want to congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Zani for bringing this very important Motion. The Motion is good. The Committee on Finance, Commerce and Economic Affairs that I serve has gone around a few counties. Some of these things are being done, although at a preliminary level. We are setting up integrated planning to have county development programmes synchronized. But the Motion is important to the extent that it is obligating every county to do exactly the same. More importantly, that every county must have a clearly formulated, mapped out and operationalized strategy for development. Madam Temporary Speaker, I can very well remember – and my good friend, Sen. G.G. Kariuki, would, perhaps, be the best to remember this – that in 1965, the late Tom Mboya moved the first Sessional Paper in this country that gave the country a direction of development. That Sessional Paper was picked up by Malaysia. It has replicated it every five years with modifications. You can see where Malaysia is today. In Kenya, we abandoned it and we took a wrong turn. That is why we are where we are. I am sure that when the late Tom Mboya moved it, my good friend, Sen. G.G. Kariuki was in the House at that time. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must plan, and plan properly. There is no “one size fits all” in development structures. This is why I agree with the two Senators who have spoken – yourself and the nominated Senator, Sen. Lesuuda. We are seeing a very worrying trend. Every governor or every county is struggling to do something without reflecting on whether it fits well in the cog of the national wheel. For example, it is the philosophy and policy of the Government to have a national power grid. Where we have 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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