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    "id": 951520,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "(CDF) of Kshs900 million. Therefore, Bungoma County is getting Kshs1.1 billion from a budget of Kshs3 trillion. As we support the people of Elgeyo-Marakwet - I drive through the area where one of those dams is being constructed every other day - it is actually a natural site for a mega dam. I would have made a similar decision if I was the President to build a dam and not to discontinue its construction. Those dams will not just serve Elgeyo-Marakwet. They will serve Uasin Gishu, Baringo, Nakuru and if they are not selfish, can extend up to Nandi and other places. The core issue that the Senate Majority Leader has read out, even listing about several projects in Central Kenya, what about us? We pay taxes. This Government has decided that this country belongs to two regions. They share resources as they wish and develop as they wish. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other day I was asking myself, the artery of Kenya’s economy, the highway from Mombasa to Malaba turning over Mau Summit to Kericho and Kisumu, carries 60 per cent of our external trade. We are busy constructing railways and terminating them in Naivasha, in the middle of somebody’s land instead of opening up highways to improve our economy. This is the mismatch that this Government of Jubilee is doing to this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is an eye opener for the Senate Majority Leader for once to stand up now and see the other side of the coin. Now that the boot is on the other leg, we can all now speak from the same side that an injustice to the people of Bungoma is an injustice to the people of Elgeyo-Marakwet, Siaya and all Kenyans in other counties. The Committee that will look at this must also go out of their way and see the mega dams that have been talked about everywhere in this country and find out how far have the constructions are. What are the levels of exaggeration of procurement in those projects? Madam Temporary Speaker, lastly is the point that the Senate Majority Leader mentioned about external resources coming to the country. There are people who sit in the National Treasury and routinely share external resources, loans and donations to their areas and regions to the exclusion of others. In the Western Region, we are now used to receiving the President and his Deputy every other day to come and make promises: “ Hiiitajengwa, hii itafanywa, hii itazinduliwa, na hii itafanyika .” They finish talking and go away."
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