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    "id": 1075768,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Chair for clarifying that point. If that is the case, then the committee should have been a bit firm in ensuring that county assemblies have the autonomy. Nothing stops the committee from bringing an amendment to the Constitution, which does not require a referendum, so that it gives the county assemblies the autonomy. It is difficult for the county assemblies to oversight the county executives when they have to rely on the county executives for them to receive their money. We had instances of counties such as Machakos and Makueni where the executives completely refused to release money to the county assemblies. How do you expect them to be oversighted? Before the point was clarified, I was driving the point on the issue of remittance. Why is it that money is deducted from salaries of county assemblies’ staff, MCAs and the secretariat, yet that money is not forwarded to the Pension Fund? If we are not able to send money to the Pension Fund, we should not pretend that we are deducting the money from them."
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