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    "id": 882332,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "autonomy of running resources and many other affairs, we need to ensure that we have legislative proposals or laws that are in place to enrich devolution. Therefore, even as we assist in enriching devolution, we want to see practical results at the grassroots level. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a problem either with the Senate, the national Government or county governments, because what I saw in the Sixth Devolution Conference in Kirinyaga County is not an inspiration to most of the Kenyans across the country. It seems people are confusing devolution conference with a cultural event. Most of the things that you saw being either repackaging of sand, display of calabashes, wearing skins, issues of booths, and I cannot say bedroom but the ultra-modern sitting room arrangement in most of the stands, it is very unfortunate. So, even as we come up with serious legislations to enrich devolution such as this, we should also be aware that Kenyans want development. I wish I would have seen my county, displaying how many kilometers of road they have graded, culverts they have installed, health facilities that are functional, development they have done like the way Makueni County are doing that will have value addition. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are neighbors, you know very well that my county relies on agriculture. Maybe, they would have brought milk or flour that has been manufactured in Nandi County. Those are things that we need a pragmatic shift from. We need a shift from the old thinking that the devolution conference is a cultural conference. It should be a development conference where counties like Kisumu County should display fish that is packaged in Kisumu. The way your popular slogan is. Those are some of the things --- but our governors were busy displaying archaic and cultural things, carrying around mursik that is not part of development. This was not a circumcision ceremony where you are bringing cultural issues."
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