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    "id": 641104,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/641104/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will recall that this petition is coming shortly after the one from Vihiga County. Kenyans are saying the constitutional oversight institutions are taking too long to catch new thieves. I had the opportunity to go to Lodwar and I saw the governor’s personal residence being constructed at a cost of Ksh300 million. The governor’s office is being constructed at the cost of Kshs600 million, in a county where their primary challenge is food and water. I want to ask the people of Turkana to refuse and remove that “poster child”; that a Turkana child is the one walking hungry with a bowl or standing under a goat suckling. We even saw photographs of a child suckling a dead mother. Given the photographs from Turkana, which are duplicated elsewhere, are the African leaders ready to lead African countries and institutions? If the billions that we are wasting on devolution were available, we would not have stopped the expansion of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) at only Ksh56 billion. This would have completely opened up our economy in the air travel industry. We must be strong and refuse to accept phone calls from governors when they are called to account. I listened to villagers in Lodwar and they were pointing fingers at members of the County Executive Committee (CEC). Some of the people who have been employed are not qualified to serve their respective dockets. For example, somebody who once served as a prison warden is the one in charge of finance. I do not know whether you notice some of these things. I urge you not to go to Lodwar as the Speaker of the Senate."
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