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    "id": 1494943,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "If they have challenges in meeting their financial needs, they cannot perform primary oversight effectively. We have even seen in some counties MCAs becoming people who just move around with governors and defending them because they have no choice. They depend on handouts from the governors. We want to have a situation where our MCAs are independent of the county executives. That way, they will be able to perform their roles effectively and independently. This Bill by the Deputy Speaker guarantees that. We pass many Bills in this House but when they go to the National Assembly, they stay there without being acted on and eventually they lapse. I hope Members of the National Assembly are listening to us and are also sympathetic to the situation of our MCAs. I urge them to pass this Bill in record time, so that it becomes an Act of Parliament. That will help us to solve this long-standing problem affecting our important leaders at the grassroots and these are our MCAs. I support."
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