{"id":594170,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/594170/?format=json","text_counter":335,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":170,"legal_name":"Bonny Khalwale","slug":"bonny-khalwale"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The County Attorney may, upon request, appear and advise on any matter in any committee of the county assembly. I thank Sen. Wako for this because there is an animal in the counties called “public land.” County governments are targeting those pieces of land. In Kakamega, for example, there is a tract of land outside Bukhungu Stadium. Now that Bukhungu Stadium is being renovated, private people have grabbed land where vehicles are supposed to be parked. If we had a County Attorney, he would have stopped that. Finally, we have Kakamega Level 5 Referral Hospital with a large piece of land. Private individuals – some of them closely related and associated with the governor – have curved off land from the hospital and they are putting up flats. I advise people of Kakamega not to interfere with the construction of the flats but let them complete the flats because that is public land. When we change government – that change is coming – we will convert those flats into public houses that will house our doctors at the General Hospital."}