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    "id": 1462404,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the Bill that has been sponsored by the Senate Majority Leader. In the last Parliament, I had the privilege of serving as the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. These matters came before my chair, and, indeed, we brought in a legislative proposal before this House. However, it was too close to the elections, about a month or two to the elections. At that point in time, the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC), which we want to rename as the Intergovernmental Relations Agency, wanted to be a commission. We thought that that was a bit self-serving and selfish. They argued that they should be established like a constitutional commission, like the other constitutional commissions in Article 250. That sounded rather ambitious. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to speak to the spirit of this Bill rather than the letter, as my senior, the Senator for Kakamega County, has done. He has spoken elaborately to the letter. Let me talk about the spirit. Intergovernmental relations is a constitutional provision. If you look at Articles 185, 186, 187 of the Constitution going onwards, it requires that the two levels of Government to have formal mechanisms for consultation and working together."
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