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    "id": 878115,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "The people who are still excited about lending money to Kenya are the Chinese. However, they are lending money to Kenya and causing us to mortgage our country. In all the stories about the corruption that we are seeing, if it is not a European involved, it is a Chinese. This is where our country is. As we look at this Budget Policy Statement (BPS), we must ask ourselves serious questions. Where are we headed to? The Council of Governors (CoG) appeared before us and we also put them through very hard questions. Why is there so much corruption in the counties? We even gave the example of the Samburu saga. Samburu is a very small county, getting an average of Kshs4 billion a year. How do you explain the governor building mansions worth Kshs2 billion in Karen, Nairobi? In fact, if you know Karen, there is a restaurant on Lang’ata road called Tiwi, after the Total petrol station. If you look across the late John Keen’s land, you will see huge monstrous mansions. That is a governor’s residence for his two wives and an extra structure for his meetings, yet this is a person who did not even have a one bedroom apartment before he became governor. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, where is this country headed? He is busy saying that he is ready to answer all the questions. Which questions are these? He should be a guest of the state in Kamiti. This is true of all of them without exception. Even the good ones, as soon as they get into office, they transmorphosise themselves into thieves. As we fight to take money to the counties, we told the CoG that we want to serious positive development of even peer review among themselves. Why is everybody talking so good of Gov. (Prof.) Kibwana and nobody is saying anything good about someone else? Why can we not sit down and look at these things? Why is now being a county chief executive synonymous with theft? I know a governor who has built a palace for his first wife, a palace for his second wife, and he is now constructing another one for his third wife. This is a man who did not have a lot of money before. I join those who spoke earlier like, the Senator for Kericho in saying that we want to see the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) stop the shenanigans of playing to the gallery and the media. Forewarned is forearmed. You cannot investigate cases through the media and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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