Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 703149,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/703149/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 364,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 14 of this Bill will afford the governor an opportunity to give an inauguration speech upon signing the certificate of inauguration. This speech, as envisaged in this Bill, is not a platform for empty rhetoric. We are not seeking to create a platform where a governor can find time to stand before all and sundry and say that he has defeated you fair and square. I am on record as having queried why we elect governors as we do when running a presidential election. We have always demanded that a candidate or candidates for the office of the presidency must have a manifesto. They must have identifiable goals that they can sell to this country and say that this is what we intend to do for you as a Government when we get elected. It is the same thing that we did in the Jubilee Government when we went to run for office. We told this country precisely what we were going to do. We promised to build a railway line and provide access to affordable power for businesses in order to make it more viable to run a business. In our manifesto, we said that we will ensure that the children of this country will not see it as fantasy anymore and only watch on television when other children around the world enjoy the fruits of technology and the amazing future that it brings. We said that whether those students come from Lodwar, Wajir, Lamu or here in Nairobi, we shall level the field and every child can access that technology by provision of the tablets that we have now made a reality. At that time, we said that we will ensure that the big dream that we had of making infrastructure in this country the bedrock of our development comes to pass. For the last 50 years, this country has only seen the realisation of less than 5,000 kilometres of tarmac road. We said that we will do everything possible to bring us as close as we can to doing double that in only one term. That is a feat that we have fought for and we have gone past the three-quarter way. As of today, we have also ensured that all other enabling projects from the expansion of the airport to opening of the berths in Mombasa County have been done under this Government. Those are the promises that were made and are required to be fulfilled by a Government that intends to come to power. Now, the question is, when we elect a governor to lead the county, what do we say we want to see in them? Governors have been elected completely on an empty platform, an account of zero promises and no manifesto. That is why I envisage that by requiring that a governor should give his inaugural speech, my idea and hope as we propose this Bill to be law is that a governor will stand on that platform and share his dreams with the people in the county and how he plans to make life better. He should also talk of the question liners along which you can ask him when he fails to hit the targets. That is the kind of speech that a governor is expected to give at the inaugural platform as envisaged in Clause 14. I have also clearly proposed that it is after he signs the certificate of inauguration. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I hope that as they give their speeches, they will hold and raise that certificate as the instrument and promise that they have made to the people of their county. Upon that promise, they are able to answer questions that will make devolution that we have fought for a reality. As of this day, we all know more than Kshs1 trillion has been taken to county governments. There is no secret about it. If there is, it is where the money is. This is because if one would take a value test and ask where that money is or where it can be seen, it cannot be seen. Most statisticians in this country 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"
}