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"speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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"content": "Our job here, as a Senate, is to defend and protect devolution. The net effect of these amendments is to dilute devolution and transfer functions and powers that have been assigned to county governments to the national Government institutions. I have gone through this Amendment Bill and have got a clear conscience in opposing it. I have further received instructions from the caucus of County Executive Committee Members (CECMs) in charge of water in Kenya. They have said that they held their meetings and decided that for this Bill, they are going to lobby their respective Senators, so that we defeat it on the Floor of this House. Madam Temporary Speaker, this caucus brings together CECMs from all the 47 counties. Irrespective of how they voted or who their political hero is, they have all in unison said that this Bill is going to take away the little powers and space that county governments and county Water Service Providers (WSPs) have."
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