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    "id": 1551980,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker I rise to second. First, I take this opportunity to thank the committees, the joint committees of JLAC and the committee on Devolution and Inter-Governmental Relations for the good work they have done. We were just having this discussion with Senator for Narok. I wish that the recommendations of the committee were stricter than what have been recommended. Yesterday we woke up to a headline story that there is one lawyer who represented the Nairobi City County Government in a suit involving a land squabble between the county and the military. That lawyer has been awarded Kshs1.3 billion as legal fees for a case that was involving the military and which is one section of government and a county government. The most interesting bit is that that case was withdrawn by consent, which tells you the county government sat down with the military and agreed to withdraw the case on certain terms. Now the court is telling the Nairobi City County government to pay that Kshs1.3 billion within 60 days. We, as Senators, here know for a fact we pass the disbursement schedule for monies to come from the national government to go to counties. In the disbursement schedule for Nairobi City that is the equivalent of one month's disbursement from Exchequer to the Nairobi City County Government and then the court is telling us to pay this one individual Kshs1.3 billion in 60 days. When I was in law school we learned that the court should not issue orders in vain. My senior hear - retired Justice Madzayo - you know for a fact it does not matter what you do. There is no way Nairobi City County can pay Kshs1.3 billion in 60 days. It is not possible."
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