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    "id": 1244849,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "are the ceilings that we are putting in our various county assemblies? You know the politics that goes with it. You know the fight that came about until we did an amendment to the Public Finance Management Act to separate the accounts of county assemblies with those of the county executive members. Unfortunately, it has gone through very difficult times. It is until petitions are brought to this House that they benefit from some of these things. Mr. Speaker Sir, I recall in our first term of this House, MCAs appeared before the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. I was then serving as a Member. They informed us how difficult it was back then when they served under a unified account together with the county executive. There are governors who would even delay salaries of individual MCAs because they either supported or did not support their activities. We do not want to take the county assemblies down that route. Lyn Mengich, the Chairperson of SRC, must come before the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. Let them give us their justification. This is not about the earning or the wellbeing of MCAs; this is about devolution. Therefore, I expect that the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations will lead us into having a structured conversation so that eventually we can right what is grossly wrong to our MCAs."
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