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    "id": 468096,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the issue of wrong priorities is so painful that in Kakamega, where we do not have a shortage of land for the former municipal or county council; in fact, we have too much land. In Shikusa alone, we have 2,000 acres that is being used by prisons to feed all prisoners in Kenya. if the Governor can go ahead and allocate Kshs150 million for buying land so as to construct the county headquarters when we already have the former Provincial Commissioner’s (PCs) premises that he can only move in tomorrow morning and occupy; he can go to the former PCs residence and move in. If he does not want the former PCs headquarters, he can go to the former municipal council headquarters or the former Kakamega County Council Headquarters, which are there and they are not in use. But they want to put up a facility using Kshs150 million so as to squander it! Madam Temporary Speaker, the issue of ego-trips--- It is so unfortunate that the logic of calling facilitators in a particular workshop so that they talk to members of the county assemblies is lost. It is lost to our governors to the extent that 50 members of the County Assembly of Machakos are being sent to South Africa at the cost of the county government. Fifty members of the County Assembly of Nakuru are being taken to Uganda at the cost of the county government. Fifty members of the Nairobi County Assembly are now in the process of working on passports because they want to go to the United States of America (USA). We cannot support this, if, indeed, we are as provided in the Constitution, charged with the responsibility of protecting the interests of the counties. We must say no to the Governor of Nakuru, to the Governor of Machakos, the Governor of Nairobi and others who might be tempted to do the same. The case of luxury residences - why would Governor Kidero set aside over Kshs200 million to put up a Governor’s house? Why would Governor Oparanya set aside 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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