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    "id": 1224426,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1224426/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatinga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wahome Wamatinga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. The issue of governance, accountability and transparency across the world has been known by researchers and scholars to have cost the global economy a lot. The fact is that we are coming from a regime where CSs were behaving like demigods. The wisdom of our President is to try to bring the services closer to the people and the CSs to come to the people’s representatives in no lesser House than the Houses of the Senate and the National Assembly. We, as Chairpersons of Committees, have been faced, in numerous occasions, with situations where we have to seek assistance from the CSs to give us answers that we can give to the people. To have them on the Floor of the House, will give those of us who sit in several Committees an opportunity to ask cross-cutting questions. It will be totally dishonest for anybody in this House to say that bringing CSs into this House is not honoring the Constitution, advancing the democratic space of Kenya and bringing the intended services closer to the people. Just this week, I sat in this very same Chamber with a company that is charged with the responsibility of generating power. We had challenges getting people to answer"
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