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    "id": 1042045,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Article 96 of the Constitution was not established by accident. It says that the Senate shall protect counties and county governments. It was put in place because it was known that there is a danger that county governments are facing. Where is the danger from? There might be other quotas where county governments may face danger from, but the most primary institution that threatens county governments is the national Government because of the competition between the national and county governments. Today, from the witnesses and testimony we have heard from the Nairobi City County Government, all this is about control of the 10 per cent of the country in term of its economy. Nairobi is 60 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product. This is about power, about the transfer of functions agreement and the establishment of the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS). It is about interests that are competing and particularly commercial interests. For that reason, this House must rise to the occasion to defend devolution and ensure that counties and county governments have the confidence of the Senators. With those comments, this House must tonight demonstrate that they have the level of consistency that can be believed by the people of Kenya. I beg to oppose."
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