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    "id": 1522823,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, allow me to join this debate, which has two aspects. I am glad that, today, the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party have agreed on one thing; that this House has been reduced to a House of lamentations. Once upon a time, this august House was an appendage of the Executive. We freed ourselves and you know how it used to be. Unfortunately, we are going back to where we used to be. I am told the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure is here. It is shocking that a Managing Director (MD) of a national Government agency, without any due regard or consultation, simply by a circular, negates everything that this House has passed. The implication is that we are no longer the august House that we used to be. Why should the MD of the KeRRA sit down and negate what we have passed here yet we have a Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure? Why should the Director- General for KURA sit down and negate a legislation that has gone through all the stages yet we have a Committee here? The only inference you can make is that this is no longer the august House. I agree with what both the Leaders of the Majority Party and Minority Party have said. Under the current Constitution, and for those of us who have been part of this, we had certain considerations. You know how we included devolution and the Equalisation Fund in the current Constitution. The NG-CDF is now floating in the air. The governors have gone to court to make sure that the Equalisation does not work. It is no longer functioning. The governors have gone to court to ensure the NG-CDF and the RMLF are not working. They are now saying that Members of Parliament do not have a role in the governance of the Republic of Kenya. Is that where you want to be? The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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