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    "id": 1456676,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1456676/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ol Jorok, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Michael Muchira",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, this is in the proposed Report. As I was saying, constituencies are not units of devolution. Therefore, allocating this Fund based on the constituencies is illegal. A senator represents a specific county, but when they come to the Senate, they do not legislate against specific counties but for all the counties in Kenya. They do not oversee a specific county; instead, they are in the Senate to protect devolution. Therefore, you cannot have specific senators overseeing certain counties because Senators oversee all the counties. We appropriate money for oversight to Senate committees like the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC). Therefore, appropriating money to the Senate Oversight Fund amounts to double allocation. Finally, we need to define what oversight is. The Senate seems to be confused between oversight and supervision. When you oversee, you do not over-reach. For example, if a road is being constructed, you do not need to be physically there to supervise because that amounts to over-reaching. We need to think through this so that we do not introduce an illegality. I believe that there is still room to amend this Report. There is also still room to amend the Appropriation Act so that this amount is not appropriated until this House is convinced that we need an Oversight Fund and put in place regulations to run it. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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