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    "content": "sense than having small counties where the national Government is now just giving them therapies for survival. They are sent money to pay salaries, so that people do not riot and nothing to develop. That is why, yesterday, I spoke here a little harshly about the national debt and the skewed manner that national resources are being used to develop some regions and ignore others. Madam Temporary Speaker, you may recall the President in Kiambu, some months ago, very gleefully telling the people of Kiambu that in the next financial year, he would pump Kshs100billion for public projects in the region. What about Bungoma, Makueni, Kajiado, Kisumu and Wajir? What are they getting? We have it on record here that almost the whole amount of money sent to counties like Nyeri and Mombasa is gobbled up by the wage bill. Therefore, they cannot develop and yet, money is being borrowed and selectively gerrymandered to develop some areas as we continue marginalising others. Devolution came to correct the historical injustices and imbalances in the development of this country. However, what we are now staring at, even as we are excited about it, is that what was a wonderful idea is slowly degenerating into a nightmare. There are governors who do not sleep in their counties because they have no money to pay workers, contractors and suppliers. We have to address these issues. More importantly, this Bill is very important because whenever we have problems of boundaries, there is no way we can put it undercover forever. It will always explode. An example is the Konza City. Right now it is not under construction and so, the interests of Makueni, Machakos and Kajiado are diminished. Let me assure you that if we put up ten skyscrapers in Konza City, you will see the daggers. Makueni, Machakos and Kajiado will come blazing. Even if you tell my brothers in Machakos and Makueni that they are both ‘w a- kwitu,’ they will say: “W a- kwitu kitu gani ? We want our share.” Madam Temporary Speaker, this has happened all over the world. Countries have gone to war over small parcels of land. Kenya nearly went to war because of a quarter of an acre island in Lake Victoria called Migingo. Sen. Orengo, the late Sen. Kajwang’ and I had our boat nearly capsize, with the Uganda’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and two other Ministers as we were cascading through the waves of Lake Victoria to go and see what Migingo was about. We found that the Migingo we were talking about was a rock in the lake that was less than half an acre. What we saw there is a story to behold. I remember when we were at the university there was a Provincial Commissioner (PC) in Nairobi called Mwakisha. At one time, I do not know what madness drove him to raid a den of iniquity called---"
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