{"id":713403,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/713403/?format=json","text_counter":385,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Wetangula","speaker_title":"November 30, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 47 The Senate Minority Leader","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":" Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my own father is now 87 years old. He went through school on county council bursaries up to Massachusetts State University in the US to get a degree in those early years which was fully paid. I am saying where to place local interest, local content because looking here, there is a real danger in this Bill, the devil is in the detail. If you look at this Bill, we are trying to create oligarchs because what Sen. Moi is trying to do, even as the idea is good, the rich are salivating for oil and minerals. There is no way a Masaai man from Kajiado will have an opportunity to participate in extractive industry. It is the rich who are going to get richer and keep the poor poorer. So this so called local content must be defined very clearly. You will see as I develop my submissions why the devil is in the details. Those good old days, in 1959, the County Council of Elgon Nyanza, the successor entitled to Bungoma, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale can tell you, led money to her Majesty’s Government in England from local management of resources. Today, as we went into devolution, greed had entered all county councils and everybody fought to become a councillor for only one singular agenda – to steal public land, get contracts and money directly. By the time we went to devolution, even the outfit that we put in place called Transition Authority (TA), they stole even more. They stole assets, public land, public houses and they did all manner of things. Then they handed over the button to governors who are stealing even more. So, we have a serious problem of probity in this country and we really need as we pass any law, Waswahili"}