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    "id": 1502629,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Just like Sen. Mungatana, I was extremely honoured to be nominated by this House to represent the Senate in this mediation. In defence of devolution, I could not have asked for greater allies to go to war with - if I might use that term - than the National Assembly on this particular issue. I wish to take this opportunity to thank the Chairperson of our Standing Committee on Finance and Budget, Sen. Cpt Ali Roba, for providing very robust leadership of the Senate team. The team comprised of the Senator for Mombasa County, Sen. Faki, Sen. Veronica Maina, Sen. Onyonka, Sen. Wamatinga - who is my chairperson for the Committee on Energy; Sen. Mungatana and Sen. Oketch Gicheru. It was my first time in a mediation such as this and I honestly would not want to be in a different team other than this one. When we met the Members of the National Assembly, they had also sent a very strong team and they kept reminding us at every turn that many of them were PhD holders, doctors and economists like the Hon. (Dr.) Makali Mulu. Hon. (Dr.) Makali Mulu kept reminding us that we may be lawyers, we might see certain things, but when it comes to figures and numbers, we need to take a back seat and listen to him. It was a very interesting exercise, but one of the things that we could agree on, especially as a Senate and as I said yesterday during debate on the President's State of the Nation Address, it is very easy to agree on other things once you agree on principles. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very proud of the position that this Senate took; that there are certain principles we laid on the table from the onset of this mediation. The first principle was that counties must never in any financial year receive money that is less than what they received in the preceding financial year. We convinced the Members of the National Assembly on this important principle. Number two, because of inflationary trends and other things that crop up including growth in annual wages, there always has to be, year on year, an increment in 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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