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    "id": 713405,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/713405/?format=api",
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    "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"
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    "content": "We have been roughed to the extent where we live under permanent fear of watching each other, in law, we ask “who will watch the watchers?” You send a watchman and you have to send another watchman to watch the watchman whether he is going to steal or not and you have to send a third person to watch the man watching the watchman to see whether they will join together to steal public property. That is why when you look at this Bill - I hope our good clerks will pass the HANSARD to Sen. Moi - first of all, the establishment of a Local Content Development Committee is a good idea. However, I wish that we are setting up a public corporation and not a committee. This Committee, as we go through the Bill is going to be a department of government; a department controlled 90 per cent literally by the Ministry concerned. If you look at the history of this country, all these tycoons you see in central Kenya, the likes of Kiereini, the late Michuki, the late Philip Ndegwa and others, all of them were public servants. They were recruited from school without a second suit, walked into offices and worked for themselves instead of working for the country. They are owners of property in this town, county and everywhere. They have all been public servants who spent their time working for themselves and not for the public. So, when you talk of local content, I would want to see that if the minerals in Kajiado – and we provide for local content as we were providing – the stakeholder for that local content is the County Government of Kajiado. Your governor today may not be good, but I know your governor is not a bad person. That when the bad one leaves, there will be a good one. Nothing lasts forever. All the current thieves will go either through natural attrition, some will go to jail midstream or they will be invaded and 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"
}