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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "communication is processed through them. When we asked them how many clerks they have, they could not answer, as there is only one clerk and a gazetted place where the Assembly is supposed to sit. This is absolutely unbelievable. I cannot be persuaded that there is nothing this House can do. We are the ones with the power. We should stop all resources going to Nyamira County Assembly until this issue is resolved. We are presiding over an illegality. This House has options, and we must not appear helpless. By the time the report comes, the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations must ensure that it recommends stopping funds to Nyamira. If it does not, we will not accept it. We are preempting the work of that Committee already. Do not tell us there is nothing we can do. In my capacity as Secretary General (SG) of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party, I have informed my members in Nyamira that we will not tolerate their participation in an obvious illegality. I have spoken to the leadership of the Wiper Party. The SG of Wiper Party, Sen. Shakilla, is here. Inform the members of Wiper Party who are participating in that kangaroo assembly that there will be consequences for their actions. We, as ODM Party, are believers in devolution and its founders, the people who brought it to life. If we are fighting for resources, as ‘Baba’ always says, we must give counties more money. We cannot be part of these shenanigans where, instead of devolution helping the people of Nyamira, it is being undermined by small games in the village, resulting in two parallel assemblies. This will not be accepted. This Senate will not preside over such an illegality. Hon. Deputy Speaker, when we sat with those MCAs, we asked if there were court orders validating their sittings under a tree. There were none. This is a shameful situation, especially because we, as believers in devolution, are the ones who allocate funds to these county assemblies. Just yesterday, we passed a law in the Senate to give county assemblies financial independence. This law was brought by you, Hon. Kathuri Murungi, the Senator for Meru County. Now, if we instruct the National Treasury to send money to Nyamira County Assembly, which assembly will receive the funds? Now that there is financial autonomy, the next move should be for this Senate to stop any disbursements to the County Executive and the County Assembly of Nyamira because we cannot tolerate such a situation. We look so bad as a country that such a situation can continue."
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