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    "id": 1018916,
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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": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Thank you, Senators. Today is a great day. In ancient Greece, they would say this is a day set aside for heroes, legends and gods. Today is a day where this Senate has reclaimed its position. This Senate has stood to be counted. This Senate has defined clearly what it was meant to be and what it is. Patience pays. When we started, if Senators wanted a quick fix, we would have walked away with Kshs300 billion and at the very most at Kshs325 billion. However, people representing their counties, Senators, stood firm. It is not fair to hail one side and leave the other. If Sen. Kihika, Sen. Cherargei, Sen. Kinyua, Sen. Lotiptip, and Sen. Kajwang’ wanted a quick win, they would have voted for anything. They stood firm. I want to hail Sen. Sakaja, Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud, Sen. Murkomen and the team they had for also standing firm. In fact, it is their ability to negotiate from a fixed position contrary to the tenets of negotiation that has brought the Kshs370 billion. There was no way out of this impasse. Madam Temporary Speaker, if governors were working with this Senate, we probably would have achieved what the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) wants to bring; the 35 per cent of revenue going to the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, for the previous years, whether it was the time of the former Sen. Billow Kerow as our Chair, or my brother from Mandera, the distinguished Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud, every time the Senate was pushing for more resources, governors went round the Senate. They went to the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), dismissed Senators, cut a deal and put us a fait accompli . They would say those Senators do not know what they are doing. When the money does not arrive, they say Senators are blocking the money. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was shocked when the Chair of the Council of Governors (CoG) directed governors to close down health facilities. Why did they not"
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