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    "id": 917057,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support the Motion. As I support it, for those who have been with me from the 11th Parliament, I am one of the Members who have endeavoured to avoid engaging in debate between ourselves and the other House. The other House has got to a point where they are not only rendering nugatory our Constitution, but they are rubbishing that Constitution, misapplying it and disparaging provisions of the Constitution. I just want to dwell on the budget-making process. I have heard complaints and even threats from the Senate. I want to assume that they are just mere threats, and that they do not have the intention of taking some of the Bills that they have portended to take to court. Particularly, there is a Bill we passed last week and was assented to by the President. Anybody purporting to take the Appropriation Bill to court to render it unconstitutional is not only wishing death to Kenyans, but wants to bring this country to a standstill. Hon. Kimunya has put it right. It will not just be them missing their own salaries and the allowances they need as they take chopper rides to Ngong to view houses being demolished as if they enjoy seeing people’s houses being demolished. I am seeing the same senators, especially my senator from Kiambu – he chairs the Committee on Roads and Infrastructure, and yet roads in Kiambu County are in a pathetic state– to inspect national Government roads in Turkana County. I just ask myself: What did the people of Kiambu see in this man, who has time and temerity to inspect national Government roads when roads in Kiambu County are in a pathetic state? I do not even know if I voted for him, but I do not know why people would vote for somebody who instead of overseeing money appropriated by county assemblies for fixing roads in Kiambu County, he is busy taking over the work of Hon. Pkosing and the Committee on Roads of this Assembly. He purports to oversee roads and an airstrip in Turkana County while roads in Kiambu County are in a pathetic state. The theft in Kiambu County is unrivalled. All we see in Senate committee business is a circus. It is a competition between senators and governors. They do not even dwell on issues that touch on matters to do with counties. I remember when the Governor for Kiambu appeared before that Committee, they dwelt on non- issues to do with monies that had been appropriated to State House instead of dealing with what was called pigana na walevi and issues to do with rehabilitation of roads in Kiambu County. Therefore, let us not waste time… The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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