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    "id": 895334,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/895334/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "We should now appreciate that we want to forget the past divisive politics and move forward as one people because politics will always be there. Elections come and go. We had our elections in the year 2017 which was won by His Excellency the President Kenyatta and the Deputy President William Ruto. God willing in 2022, we will have our elections and we do not know who will win. It is only God who knows who will be the next President after President Uhuru Kenyatta. For now, let us rally behind the President in ensuring that we a united and cohesive country. Madam Temporary Speaker, the President said that they are looking forward to receiving the report by the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) team. I know that this team has been going round the country; they have been virtually to all counties. If their findings and recommendations will move us toward amending the Constitution that we enacted in 2010, so be it. If that is what the people of Kenya want, let us not stand on their way. When we receive the findings and recommendations of the Building Bridges Initiatives (BBI), let us remove the politics of 2022 from the sentiments that the Kenyan will have expressed to the BBI team. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are some things that are worrying about in this country. One is the issue of corruption. You can imagine that ever since devolution came to be, a sum of Kshs1.7 trillion has been disbursed to our counties. However, what is there for us to show for it? Other than some counties that have set the pace like Makueni. I congratulate my former law teacher, Prof. Kivutha Kibwana, the Governor for Makueni County, who has come up with a hospital that takes care of women who give birth to babies. I am just wondering what other counties are doing. It is a sad case in that in most counties, about 80 per cent of the money that is sent to there, is used for recurrent expenditure leaving only 20 per cent for development. If this trend continues, then Kenya cannot attain Vision 2030. We want to improve the quality of the lives of our people by building hospitals. Health is a devolved function. If we do not use this money to improve our health infrastructure like what Makueni County is doing, then the people that we represent in our counties will get disappointed. They will not feel the impact of devolution. 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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