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    "id": 1484165,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1484165/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "To the question whether the Deputy President is aware that county governments are distinct, our answer is simple. Governments at national and county levels are distinct and interdependent. So, the constitutional architecture is not to create pigeonholes. It is to create cooperative and interdependent governments. To botch that argument, you will notice that the allegation against the Deputy President on Nairobi River relocation, is not that he destabilized the Nairobi County government, he refused to support the implementation of a resolution of the Cabinet, a national Government institution. Meaning, at that level, that was the understanding that this was an inter-governmental approach to clean up Nairobi River. On the question of Julian Jahenda, allow me to say this. The person who has brought Julian Jahenda in these proceedings is a deponent of an affidavit. Allow us to hold him to account on that affidavit when he comes to testify because we have questions for him around this witness too. Finally, on the question of Treetops Hotel, there is a clear distinction. Treetops Hotel was not acquired by the company in question of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). Treetops Hotel was an assignment of lease. When the Kenya Government gives you a lease, say 99 years, you can sell that lease. It was an assignment of lease that KWS had already assigned to a third Party. The construction that a company associated with the Deputy President rightly or wrongly got this property from KWS is wrong. There was a different private property that had a lease. Then, the company holding the lease assigned that lease. Thank you. My two minutes are over. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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