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    "id": 1064278,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "This Bill talks of amending that and says all funds received by counties – whether own-source revenue, from other quarters or national Government – is all now under the oversight of the Senate. That way, we will avoid the case like what was cited today in the morning, where governors went to court at the beginning of this devolution. They wanted to stop the Senate from oversighting their own-source revenue funds and those they get from other sources, saying that the Constitution says the Senate should only oversight funds from the national Government. Madam Temporary Speaker, that is good because it makes it clear that governors have to be oversighted for everything. The Auditor-General’s report does not discriminate the source of funds. They audit all funds which counties received and expended in any financial year. Therefore, when it comes here, there is no way the Senate can be told not to oversight only national Government funds and not own-source revenue. Lastly, on the issue of the two-thirds gender rule, we are alive to the fact that last year under Article 261(7), the then Chief Justice gave an advisory to the President to dissolve Parliament. It was because we could not come up with the legislation to operationalize that aspect of the Constitution. Maybe these amendments to the Constitution are a way of coming with a solution to that. The issue I find difficult here is the creation of more constituencies. The national Government is oversighted by the National Assembly and that is where even the national Government is going to be represented. That is where I felt women need to be empowered to be part of the Government process because that is where decisions affecting women are made. Having been in Parliament for a second time now, being elected and being nominated are two different things. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you are elected, you have been elected by the public. You owe your responsibility to them and you will be working for them. On the"
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