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    "id": 885517,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would also like to concentrate on the county government. When we voted for devolution, we expected that funds would go closer to the people and people would elect their own Governors who would take care of their situation. There is nothing more important than life. We have been sitting here for the last six years and a County like Turkana has received Kshs60.7 billion in the last six years. So you ask yourself, what has this money done? We have been saying that maybe the next drought will not occur in Turkana; unfortunately, it is the case. So what has the Governor of Turkana been doing? This is a moral issue and we need to take it that way. I would like to support Sen. Ochilo-Ayacko who said that these people should be arrested because they have to explain what they did with this money for their people to be facing hunger and drought. We have to know from them. Madam Temporary Speaker, as it is right now, emergencies is a shared function. It is both a county government and National Government function. County governments have their money. I expect the Governors from these 13 or so counties now to be doing supplementary budgets, transferring the money from development to emergency. What are you developing when your people are dying? This is what we are going through and the Governors need to wake up. In arid areas like Marsabit now we have other developing situations where the pastoralists are fighting over water and pasture. I would like to urge the people of Marsabit especially around Saku to stop what they are doing. People are killing each other because of a water pan, because of pasture. They have to sit down and talk to each other and see how they can share resources. I would like to urge the leaders to make sure they do not inflame that situation and we have to see how we can use the resources we have. Madam Temporary Speaker, the National Government also needs to plan, because they are the ones who are notorious for borrowing large sums of money saying they are doing emergency and at the end of the day we have nothing. We should now have plans on how we will provide food and water to our people. At and at the end of the day, we need to have long term plans. We should have major dams in all these areas for harvesting water for domestic use and also for livestock."
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