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    "id": 1120518,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "capacity and mandate to go and oversight it and ensure that representation as per the Constitution and oversight is conducted. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I urge this House, let us not go down in history as having defeated any effort, channel or bridge that our Constitution has provided the marginalised communities and counties to equalise and fix historical injustices. In 1902, a Kenyan from these marginalised parts of this country had to get a special pass to come to any part of this country. Such was the periphery in which some of these counties lived. However, acknowledging new facts and realities--- Of course, those have been expanded, but to say 34 counties is too little, let all the 47 counties, then why have a special fund if then it is all 47 counties? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to congratulate the Committee and its Chairperson for a job well done. The Committee has asked all these questions and held the National Treasury to account. The Committee has made sure there is a clause and a timeframe within which anything that we are not satisfied with is fixed. If then we say our hands are tied, is this House saying that we have no muscle to oversight? Is this House saying then that we cannot do our duty because of the fact that we cannot oversight the Executive? With those few remarks, I support and I urge this House that we should not go down in history as the House that decided to ensure that neo-inequalities and neo- marginalisation and neo-discrimination took root and denied a chance to the people for whom the Constitution of Kenya came into existence, and instead, ensured that they continued to remain in the periphery of development, rights and any other socioeconomic injustice that has been meted on them, all the way from the colonial era to today. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support and hope that this House will passes these regulations."
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