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    "id": 1556213,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1556213/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chimera",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I will make very brief comments on the Statement sought by Sen. Cherarkey from Nandi County regarding law firms offering legal services to county governments. May the record reflect that just recently we adopted a report from the Joint Committees on Devolution and Intergovenmental Relations and Justice Legal, Affairs and Human Rights. It was a report on the Petition by Laban Omusundi on the need to have law firms being banned from offering legal services to county governments. First, this is indeed a timely conversation. It seems, all of a sudden, that it is wrong for lawyers to offer legal services to our county governments. However, when addressing the provision of legal services to county governments, the conversation must be holistic. We should also look at consultants offering services to county governments. Just recently, the Governor of Kiambu County was taken to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on allegations that a consultant was paid Kshs230 million to offer Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) services to the County Government of Kiambu. I do not know why---"
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