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    "id": 1169535,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This being the third last day of the Third Senate of the 12th Parliament, and it is important that we celebrate the great work that we have done. This includes the Disbursement Schedule that is before the House. This is the Schedule that we have been using as a tool to guide how much every county has been getting. This Senate shall be remembered for the ten weeks that we haggled about the allocation. It was a very interesting moment. My good friend, Sen. Farhiya and I, were in the Committee on Finance and Budget and there were some casualties there. The Senator for Wajir County, Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud, was the Chairperson and I was the Vice Chairperson. Of course, the country was looking at the Senate. Very famous statements that were made then; ‘one man, one vote, one shilling.’ We also asked the question whether money is shared based on the number of people, the size of the dinner plate. Many other questions were asked. Madam Temporary Speaker, this being the last Schedule for this term of Parliament, it is critical that we look at it properly. I will dwell more on the fact that this Senate has not been able to do two things. First, there is no money for oversight for Senators. This is not money for harambees and what have you. It is money to enable a Senator to monitor the billions that we allocate every year to the counties."
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