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    "id": 1502636,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "better than some of the voices he is listening to in the House since, they are not telling him the truth. Let me conclude by saying that the mediated amount might not be pleasant to the CoG. It might not be what this House wanted. I remember when we were dispatched to this mediation, we were given very clear instructions that we must not accept anything less than the Kshs400 billion that we had passed. We had many objections ourselves, including myself, during debate of this particular Bill. Nonetheless, I want to say that the purpose of mediation is not to get your way. It is to have a conversation with people who hold a different view and to come to some form of middle ground. I want the House to view this as the Senate saving Kshs7 billion for devolution and not losing Kshs13 billion from the Kshs400 billion that we had been told by the National Assembly. What we want to say as a Committee, is that we had an opportunity for a robust conversation with our colleagues from the National Assembly. I have also had opportunity to meet some of them in the Committee. For instance, the Hon. DK. They call him DK. I had never interacted with him. I have come to realize that he is not a bad man. He is a good man and we have learnt a lot from each other. However, one of the things we also continue to insist on ---"
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