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    "id": 902905,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "the Senate, so that we make a determination whether we need to extend further support to our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, we also need to be alive to the fact that the people of Kenya designed county headquarters to be areas which were district headquarters by the year 1992. There were some counties that were unfortunate and marginalized. For example, in Nyamira County, for a long time, we operated from Kisii. It was our headquarters for the larger Kisii community. They had better infrastructure. Kisii County does not need to build new headquarters for the governor. This is because, what was the municipal council then is a decent building. I have visited that office and the governor and the deputy governor have decent offices. Their key departments are housed in the same building with the governor. Therefore, in a very proactive manner, we should try to uplift counties that were marginalized. The economic endowment of counties is not the same. There are some which had good financial support. Most of these municipal councils used to raise money through rates charged on properties. Therefore, you cannot put Tana River County, for example, in the same category with Nairobi County, which was fortunate enough to find itself in the capital city. It has more resources and is spoilt for choice in terms of infrastructure. The offices that house the good Governor of Nairobi County is next to City Hall, which is an 18 floor building. If he wanted to set up all the departments within that building, it is two minutes away from his office. That may not be the same case with other counties. Two months ago, we made a visit to Kajiado County where they are yet to put up their dream county headquarters. What they have are prefabs, which are temporary structures. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us, in furtherance of Article 96 (1) of the Constitution, because we serve to represent and protect counties and their governments, to support some of the counties that may be marginalized. This will ensure that they come up and be in the same status as other counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I wish to request my good friend, Sen. Wario, who represents the good County of Tana River to second my Motion."
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