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    "id": 520643,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this Motion and to thank the Sessional Committee on Devolved Government for sitting down for many days and hours to make sure that this Report is tabled in this House, on the suitability of the nominees whose names are listed here to inquire into the Petition to dissolve the County of Makueni. The suspension of a county is indicated in Article 192 of the Constitution, as the Committee members have cited. I pity the County of Makueni because they have come to fulfill this prophecy that was written in the Constitution which is like the Bible of the people of Kenya. It says that, “the President may suspend a county”. It is not a must. In the County of Makueni, the leaders that were chosen on 4th March, 2013 as Governor and MCAs, instead of realizing that they are the servants of the people, they went into some war and brought the county to a standstill. It is now time that they went to school, opened their eyes and read this Chapter and Article 192 to realize that we are starting with them. Out of the 47 counties, they are the first county to be brought here. Instead of the people of Makueni getting services, they have now been subjected to this scenario. Madam Temporary Speaker, it states that a county shall not be suspended unless this independent commission is set up to investigate. After this has been done, it goes on to state that: “the President shall be satisfied that the allegations are justified”. When that has been done, it comes to the Senate. Where it goes on to state: “and the Senate has authorized the suspension”. This means that whoever was thinking that the Senate was just an addendum or that we did not know anything that we were doing, now it is time for them to know who the Senate is. We are going to look at it thoroughly. This issue of a stalemate in a county assembly arises because of some misunderstanding and where people have ceased to appreciate why they were elected. A county Governor and his executive are supposed to administer and work for that county using the resources that are passed by this House. However, when that money lands into the coffers of the county and then they divide it between the county assembly and the county government, suddenly in the minds of some executives, Governors and some MCAs, the Senate becomes irrelevant. They think that the Senate has no business and no role to play. Now they are listening to us when we are telling them: “Woe unto Makueni County because they are now passing through a knife here which they are not supposed to.” When they were going into a bitter war, where they were claiming who is more superior and wanted to go to Israel--- I found some MCAs who were telling people in my county: “We have gone to Israel and seen a wall. If anybody who is sick touches it, he or she is healed.” I told them that none of them was sick and they replied that they went there and the angels of the wall told them that they had already passed the 2017 elections. Everybody in the villages was being cheated that because those people had already gone 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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