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    "id": 1551128,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "The National Assembly must descend into that arena. We cannot close our eyes anymore and leave it to the Senate. This Assembly must discipline how counties work. In fact, I want to request the leaders of the Majority and Minority parties to start doing the work of the Senate since the Senate has been taking over the responsibilities of the National Assembly. We should start overseeing the work of the counties and ensure that the Senate is doing its work. If not, we will start summoning the governors. The governors should appear before the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to answer questions on legal affairs. If they cannot answer questions on how they use their money, the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) should summon them because the Senate has refused to do its work. The Supreme Court has done something commendable. I hope their ruling will end this cat and mouse drama. I hope it will end the catfights because as you may be aware, we just finished the process of unbundling the functions of the National Assembly and the Senate last month. How I wish the Senate could push for the costing of those functions and ensure that funds are allocated towards their implementation. We have seven commissioners in the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), whose only job is to work on a formula of distributing money between the national Government and the county governments. It is their only job, and they are full-time commissioners. The Senate is just watching. The work of entrenching devolution in this country requires forethought and deep understanding of the work 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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