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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wangari",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also join you and Sen. Hassan in wishing our Muslim brothers and sisters a happy Idd ul Hajj. That said, I rise to support the Bill that has been brought by Sen. Sang. It is very progressive. We should have enacted it one or two years ago. The role of the Senate and especially our mandate that is explicit in Article 96 is to make sure that we help institutionalize and operationalize the counties. Being the first Senate and the first county governments under this Constitution, it is very important that we lay a good foundation on how these county governments are run. This is one office that not much is known about it yet it plays a very crucial role. In fact, I would say that they have a very funny office on Haile Selassie Avenue. I have been there and the role that office plays is not commensurate with how it looks. It looks like a forgotten office. It cannot handle what we are doing now even as Parliament because every time we have to push to have this legislation out in the Kenya Gazette. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, doing that for other 47 units is not a small fete. So, I congratulate Sen. Sang. In the era we are in, first of all, we have an enlightened community. People want to know what is happening. That has been backed by the Constitution that we are operating under. If you go to the counties today, and we see even in the media, citizens are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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