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    "id": 1018893,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "actually divide people further from the tribe to inter tribal divisions. We, as a Senate, were facing a critical juncture of our history in this national conversation of whether to give a shot in the arm for devolution, which is the revolution, or to continue with some centralism where money from a county such as ours is stolen and taken to Swiss and offshore accounts, to the detriment of our development. Madam Temporary Speaker, today, this Senate has demonstrated that it has the capacity and the will to believe in the future of our great Republic. We stand here having insisted that we need more monies to the counties because they are going to generate the local economies of our people. We have seen the way devolution has been able to transform counties like Kitui that were erstwhile and had nothing to speak about. We were there during the Senate Mashinani. At the same time, we are also seeing counties that are reeling under the yoke of overpopulation because of the fact that, that is where Government services and amenities are found. Today, we are not here to say who was right and who was wrong. As Sen. Orengo said, it is friction that makes any motion occur. We stand proud and I want to congratulate President Uhuru Kenyatta for refusing to go by the nationalism that he would otherwise have been able to defend as the head of the national Executive."
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