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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First of all, I would like to congratulate you for giving a well thought out, intelligent and very solid statement for posterity. You never disappoint in this House. Every time the occasion presents itself, you are always being that great Speaker - and lawyers know that there was a renowned judge in the House of Lords called Lord Dening who always never disappointed. You are the Lord Dening of this House. I would like to, first, say that when the people of Elgeyo-Marakwet elected me to be a Senator, the issues that we presented to the people as to what the county would do to them, we never presented to them abstract issues. We talked about roads, water and other development. It can never be an excuse for my people that if I visit them this weekend, that I go and tell them that I do not know what is happening in the county; that if they ask how far a certain road construction or a water project has reached, I tell them that I do not know. This business of passing the buck between this leader and the other leader will come to an end because then the leaders will have what we can call a global picture of what is happening in the county and, therefore, accountable to the people out of knowledge. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Senate in Article 96 is the umbilical cord between the county governments and the national Government. There is no way the county can be fed without the cord being able to connect the food from Nairobi to the various parts of the county. You cannot tell me that it will be wrong for me to send food to children who are at the local level and you tell me not to ask whether the food is being eaten by the children or the housemaid. We have to sit down and make the decision together. The greatest beneficiaries of this law are the Governors, because in the absence of information by the other leaders, it has forced in the last one year--- Without mentioning the particular counties, there are some counties where some Senators, MCAs or MPs are organizing 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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