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    "id": 1008805,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1008805/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "As mentioned earlier, we undertake as a Committee to take further visits in the coming weeks to selected counties, especially in the month of August. In July, we will visit counties that are around Nairobi City County. That is Kajiado, Machakos, Kiambu, and Murang’a – of course we know the challenges in the new financial year – then we will venture out to other counties. This is not just to get firsthand and practical accounts of what is happening on the ground but also to document the interventions undertaken and their impact, which will help the country in dealing with future pandemics, epidemics or disasters. Again, we insist that these visits are important. Even if it means giving this role to the Senators of those counties and give them a reporting framework, it is important for oversight and transparency because it will save us more money than what people are saying; that we want to use money to go there. That is our role and mandate. If we save counties hundreds of millions of Kenya Shillings by visiting---. People are saying that we just want allowances. We are not interested in sitting allowances of Kshs5,000. We can save our counties billions of money by making sure that governors do not just send us false reports and we put them on the website. We want to see the real state of affairs on the ground. So, we will continue unapologetically but, of course, following the Government directive."
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