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    "id": 1564344,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1564344/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have been called upon to second the amendment to this Motion. As we second the amendment to this Motion, let it be known to all of us in this House, that the county assemblies are what is referred to as regional parliaments in other jurisdictions; institutions that have capacity to make laws and transact business for and on behalf of their respective governments. In those assemblies, it can never be that a section of leaders in one assembly will decide that they are going to have a sitting in the office of a Member of a County Assembly and call themselves the assembly of that respective county; pass laws and appropriate funds for the executive. Then we sit here and say that we are over sighting devolution. If we allow that to happen in Nyamira, it will happen in Tana River, Kakamega, Bomet and before we know it; any time MCAs are able to marshal a quorum to do anything, they will appoint among themselves a speaker, they will do what they want to do, they will appropriate and then they will say that they have done it as an assembly."
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