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    "id": 1160918,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndwiga",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njeru Ndwiga",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I want to concur with my other colleagues who have voiced their concerns before this House. First, I want to laud the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget, Sen. Kibiru of Kirinyaga County. I am extremely proud of this Senator because he has stood his ground for this House. Those of us who have been in Parliament for some time have been getting very concerned that Parliament is being diluted. Actually, Parliament has been diluted because of lack of such leaders as the Senator of Kirinyaga, Senator Kibiru. Those are the kind of people that we need in these corridors of Parliament. We need people who understand constitutionally that Parliament is not part of the Executive. The moment we understand that, then things will move in this House. For you to understand properly how Parliament has become something that you cannot understand, you need to go back, look at the HANSARD reports of post- independence Parliament and see the quality of debate the emanated from the people who reign the grounds for this country and all the way up to perhaps the 9th Parliament and then Parliament began its deterioration. The deterioration began when Parliament became part of the Executive. Then the Executive could go to Parliament and dictate to Parliament what would be passed and what would not to be passed. This is a very clear example. Regarding the conditional grants, this House passed the Bill and it is the responsibility of this House to pass Bills that define how revenues will be allocated to counties. To my suprise, the National Assembly amended that Bill. It is a Bill they did not know anything about. These are not Government funds mainly. In fact, the Government funds in here are about Kshs7 Billion only. The Kshs39 Billion that we are talking about are grants from donors. Mr Temporary Speaker, Sir, I agree with the Senator for Narok County, Sen. Olekina, that these Members of the National Assembly believe that governors are in competition with them. They have their CDF and there are other grants. When you listen to them speaking in the campaigns these days, they say that the Constituencies"
}