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    "id": 1147407,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I welcome the team of librarians from the 27 county assemblies that are being attached to the Senate and the National Assembly. On behalf of the great people of Nandi County, allow me to warmly welcome them to this Chamber. The Senate and county assemblies play almost the same role in terms of primary oversight. We are the big brothers of county assemblies. We are ready to mentor them and ensure that they learn as much as they can. I know that with the onset of devolution, there has been a great challenge in terms of capacity building, especially to our county assemblies. However, I am contented that at the end of the tenure of the second generation of devolution, most county assemblies have made significant improvement. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have the privilege of sitting as a Member of the Sessional Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments. We have interacted with county assemblies and I am happy to note that most of them have built capacity in human resource as well as modern county assemblies to accommodate members. They are now offering services, which is part of ensuring that we have capacity. There are many challenges that county assemblies still face in terms of capacity building for Members of County Assembly (MCAs). I am happy that as we go to the third generation of devolution and ensuring that it works, God willing, some of us will be part of the second or third generation of devolution. For us who are in the Kenya Kwanza Alliance (KKA) and have undertaken the bottom-up economic approach, the bottom-up will start from the counties that we are talking about. I am delighted that my neighbour, Kericho County Assembly, is here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have also seen your county, Laikipia County, in the delegation of the 27 county assemblies. It is good that the team from Laikipia County are privileged to see you be the Temporary Speaker of the day. They have a lot to learn from your office. They can interact with you, and we know you are good in Kiswahili. Some of us including, Sen. Madzayo who comes from Kilifi County and my brother Sen. Faki from Mombasa County, are not so good in Kiswahili. The Laikipia County team should be excited to see you presiding over the Senate today. I am pleased that you are one of the people who have succeeded to secure the ticket of United Democratic Alliance (UDA), a part of KKA who will run in August. We have no doubt that the people of Laikipia County have seen your tremendous performance on the Floor of the House, which is equal to mine. In a minute, I would like to remind you that we were together with Sen. Madzayo when we were pushing for one man, one vote, one Shilling. We have said that that dream can be deferred, but we will continue pushing on to ensure equity in terms of resource allocation in our county. We will not leave behind Kilifi, Mombasa and many other counties. I am aware that we also have a delegation from Georgetown University. We welcome them and let them learn as much as they can. Fortunately, or unfortunately, being an election season, most of our colleagues are either away on parliamentary duties or other exigencies of work as the Senate."
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