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    "id": 499726,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/499726/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " A county like Kakamega which today has been declared the poorest in Kenya in terms of household’s ratings will now get money to change the lives of people. Kwale and Kilifi which are classified as the poorest counties in Kenya have been given money and work is being done. The forgotten Turkana; now everybody is cascading there. Then there is Garissa. I want the distinguished Senator for Lamu to speak a bit more about land grabbing in Lamu. I can go, as a Kenyan, and buy land in Lamu. I have no right to go and appropriate myself land in Lamu because I am well placed in society. You cannot do that. For you who come from Turkana, you must keep vigil on Turkana, Marsabit and everywhere. They are busy drawing maps at Ardhi House and allocating themselves land. They will never get to see it but they have titles and blocs. They will sit and sell them to people in New York, Vancouver and everywhere else. You will see a mzungu appearing with a suitcase being guided and he will be told that he owns a certain property. This is a property that you have lived on with your ancestors for centuries. That is why we are fighting for resources to be controlled by counties. That is why minerals must remain under the management of counties. The national Government can give policy but it has no right to determine who mines where in Taita-Taveta and in Kajiado. It cannot determine who goes to build a resort in Maasai Mara or Amboseli. That is the work of the county government and those are the resources we are talking about. Senators, my brothers and sisters, you are here for a purpose. You are not a transient Senate. You are the first Senate after the abolition of the first Senate to come in place under the new Constitution that even 15 and 20 year olds know that Sen. Mositet is different from MP, Sakuda; yeye ni baba wa kaunti, ilhali Sakuda ni Mbunge. When you go to Laikipia, Sen. G.G. Kariuki must be given the reference he deserves because he is the hunter. He comes to Nairobi to hunt and take billions of shillings to Laikipia County. You have seen what is going on in the National Assembly and we have our party Members there. The National Assembly is very preoccupied with CDF and many of us have told them that we are not interested in CDF because we have run CDF before. The work of the Senator goes beyond CDF which is only Kshs100 million per constituency while Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is taking Kshs10 billion to Kakamega. How can he be preoccupied with CDF? We are fighting for a much larger and nobler cause to go and change the lives of people. 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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