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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to beg this House that we oppose this Motion. I know people are fatigued and there is a lot of pressure from committees but this is not the time to go on recess. For the love of Kenya, the ship is rocking. How can you go on recess when we are still asking the Executive what is happening to the Kenya shilling? The Kenya shilling is sliding, it is now Kshs100 against the dollar. We are headed the Zimbabwe way where the exchange rate was not controllable. This is happening when there is nobody to ask the President to give us a governor, deputy governor and the chairman for the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). Who is in charge? Who is determining the monetary policy of this Government? With all due respect to Sen. Billow, who knows these things better than me, every morning, the monetary is supposed to be made. Who is directing the economic policy of the country if the CBK Governor is not there to advise the National Treasury? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should not go home because we are now witnessing nauseating wasteful expenditure of state resources as evidenced, a few days ago, by 13 private helicopters being hired to airlift Cabinet Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and supporters to accompany the President to Taita-Taveta, at an average of Kshs800,000 per helicopter. You can do the arithmetic and see how wasteful this Executive is. We have just been told, thanks to the members of fourth estate, that the President intends to go to Lagos to witness the swearing-in of Shujaa Buhari accompanied by 94 members of the Government, friends and relatives. All these expenses will be underwritten by the taxpayers. We must be here, insist and bang this Table to ensure that this is cancelled. We only want five people to go to Nigeria; the President, the Deputy President, Hon. Raila Odinga, Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka and Sen. Moses Wetangula. Why? So, that they can see how graceful it is, for somebody to be defeated. They should see how graceful it is to hand over power after you have accepted defeat. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, today, we have fights allover in the counties but the one which has been very persistent is in Kisumu. The Speaker has congratulated us for doing well but where is the Committee on Devolved Government? Why has Kisumu been left unvisited by this Committee? We only see ODM officials trying to intervene. We have even seen the former Prime Minister trying to intervene. The fact that hon. Raila Odinga is doing Senate’s work is a big statement on our failure to intervene in Kisumu. It is wrong. What message are we sending that the capital and commercial city where the Prime Minister was born and bred should just be left “like that”? Are we saying that we 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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