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    "id": 1102378,
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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": "I thank all the people who have given a voice to this issue. The party leader of Jubilee and its leadership have a last opportunity to rise above the petty politics and atone for their sins by nominating another Ogiek to replace Sen. Prengei. With that as it may, let me go the subject matter that we are debating this time. We must continue to live until our time comes. As we do so, we must do our job diligently. As Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki said, we live in terrible and sad times in our country. The second term of Jubilee and President Kenyatta’s administration has been a sad term for devolution. It has been a term for massacring and destroying independent institutions of governance. Article 6 of the Constitution focuses on two levels of Government, which are supposed to operate independently but with mutual cooperation among the 47 county governments and one national Government. Since 2017, it has been a time for consolidation of power to the Presidency and national Executive. It started by emasculating the Opposition and creating a country that has no accountability from those who were on the other side. I must give a lot of credit to the CORD Coalition. As they existed last term, they put the Jubilee Coalition under strict accountability measures that were anticipated by our Constitution; that there will be a majority and minority side. However, there always would be a political party outside the one that is governing. As a result of that, Jubilee Administration was always put under checks. Unfortunately, our former party, through its party leader, hatched something called the ‘handshake’ and an opportunity arose to attack county governments. I know that Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki is remembering with a lot of nostalgia the first term of devolution, which had many governors speaking their voice. They were loud and held the national Government to account. However, once the minority side was dismembered and 'swallowed' by Jubilee, what followed was that governors were threatened with impeachment, not just from their counties, but a clear orchestrated operation between the Office of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (ODCI), the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the national Executive to make sure that governors were always threatened with charges. I do not wish to excuse the bad manners of some of the governors who have stolen public resources. Unfortunately, the anti-corruption crusade that ensued was not legal and for purpose of achieving positive accountability for county governments. It was for purposes of intimidating county governments and ensuring that they toe the line. That"
}