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"speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will start where the distinguished Senator for Laikipia left. I support the Bill. In doing so, I want to encourage that elected Senators that represent their delegations to this Senate have a duty when a Bill like this comes to go back to their counties and speak with the stakeholders if they so wish and then by the time we go to Committee Stage, we have the liberty to bring amendments. I am sure we are not concluding debate on this Bill today or next week. It will be on this Table for the next couple of weeks and it is always open to amendment at the Committee Stage. This is a very important Bill. Those of us who look at the history, starting with African continent, apart from Nigeria, Tanzania and Malawi where the governments of the day under Mwalimu Nyerere, Gen. Gowon and under Banda decided with the consensus of the nation to have new headquarters in Abuja, Lilongwe and Dodoma. We also have had extreme absurdities. You remember Gen. Mobutu Seseseko of Congo removed the headquarters from Kinshasa and took it to the forest where he was born; a place called Legabolite. Since he was chased away from power, it is now a ghost town. In Cote de Voire, President Houphouet Boigny in what the French call total megalomania took the headquarters from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro where he was born and built an opulence which Prof. Ali Mazrui said: “This is a ghost town”. In ordinary usage of language, a ghost town is a place where people have left. But this particular ghost town is a place where people have not yet arrived!"
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