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    "id": 1065655,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, our county assemblies have been held at ransom by governors. They cannot run or do anything. Whatever must be done has to be granted by the governor. This amendment is creating the Ward Development Fund so that it is run the way we run the Parliamentary Service Commission. If we were to go to the Executive every time to ask for money on daily basis to run the National Assembly or the Senate, it definitely would not work. So, freeing our assemblies so that they can oversee governors is extremely important. A Member was saying that next year, we will have to look at the qualification of the MCAs. That is a law that was passed and was just postponed. Corruption will finally go. When you get people of that level who are well funded and independent, we will be strengthening the counties and that is what we wanted so that issues of people coming to the centre to beg for money are not there."
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