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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first and foremost, I thank all my colleagues, the Senators, who have contributed very robustly to this Bill. I have bulleted quite a number of their concerns, which I believe shall be subject to amendment or introduction at the Committee Stage. I believe that whatever recommendations were given, are extremely useful in terms of perfecting or improving on this Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, most Senators appreciated that Article 43 is one of the most fundamental gains of our new Constitution, 2010. Article 174(f) states that one of the objects of the devolution of government is: “to promote social and economic development and provision of proximate, easily accessible services throughout Kenya.” Therefore, this Bill intends to reposition devolution in terms of psyche of county governments. One of the speakers raised similar concerns that partly inspired this Bill; where the governors think that the only development they can do is to lay cabros and do a few other things here and there, but not make the lives of our people better. I was also quite enthused by some of the contributions, particularly a comment made by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. He said that we should not celebrate when governors launch toilets and boreholes, 50 years after Independence. In fact, we should be a nation in shame. To respond to that issue, this Bill intends to depoliticize policy, so that governors do not demonstrate as if issues around social justice and all economic and social rights are out of their magnanimity, hospitality or good nature. This Bill intends to depoliticize policy, so that whenever governors execute functions and mandates within our Constitution, people should realise that it is based on a certain right and a strategic plan that is carefully implemented or developed through the participation of the people. I also take the views of Sen. Ndiema who said that we need to enforce or strengthen the capacity to conduct statistics. What will be required is what Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o talked about, that is, evidence or research-based planning, which is scientific in nature, so that it can guide us to some of the areas of development that need to be strengthened. Equally, I totally agree with the interventions of Sen. Kagwe which were strengthened by Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki through a point of information. One of my fundamental concerns has been this very simplistic arena of how we define marginalization or the index that is used in terms of Government statistics to define marginalization. That is why in the Second Schedule of the Bill, we have broadened the criteria because we realise that we have what we call the urban poor. You can be in Mombasa, but living in a place called Burukenge. Are you aware that there is a place called Burukenge in Mombasa? Just yesterday, it was said that floods killed one person in that area. I can tell you for a fact that whenever you hear some of these names like 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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