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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join the rest of my colleagues in welcoming the two visiting delegations. First, the delegation from Kisii County Assembly for which Sen. M. Kajwang’ wants to distract the attention of the House to an earlier request that he made to me about a particular Member of the delegation. I would like it to go on record that I looked back because I was excited to see a fellow comrade that I went to university with, who is part of the delegation. That is Hon. Lillian Gor who is now an MCA. She is a good friend of mine. Though nominated by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), our friendship transcends the political divide. I know many such others, including Sen. M. Kajwang’, who is generally a good man, save for when he is in the company of a herdsman and a fisherman, he tends to say certain things that I do not agree with. I do welcome the visiting delegation. I had wished to borrow a leaf from what Sen. M. Kajwang’ said about the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) and urge the rest of the chairpersons that occasionally--- On many afternoons when we have delegations visiting the Senate, it is usually the technical staff from county assemblies who come here to learn. What about our MCAs? We need to increase our interaction with MCAs to be beyond our interaction with them at the Legislative Summit, which happens once annually. We need to grow that and cultivate a better relationship, so that occasionally, when we have a delegation from a particular county assembly, since most of them are drawn from a particular committee, we should ensure that during their study tour, they are incorporated so that they partake in the goings-on in each of the committees of the Senate. Perhaps it is time, because unlike our colleagues in the National Assembly, for whom we cannot mirror a committee for a committee, at least in the county assemblies, we can mirror a committee for a committee with those of the Senate, such that for every committee of the Senate, you will have an equivalent in the county assembly, where they draw their trainings, manuals and policy decisions such that a particular county assembly does not have to ring the Senate."
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