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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have listened to the Chairperson of the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. I hold the Senator together with all the Members who serve in that Committee in high regard, but I must look them straight in the eye and tell them that they have failed this House. They have had 45 days, which translates to one-and-a-half months. A colleague walked up to them and told them that there is an absurd situation in his county. He told them that two sittings are happening and both are purporting to be the county assemblies of that county. My question is: what would be more urgent? Many times, we walk up to each other, as colleagues, and request that we intervene on matters that affect the citizens that we represent in this House. Something is not right on account of the length of time that it has taken this Committee to give us a progress report. Secondly, you have heard the Chairperson of the Committee Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations say that the Controller of Budget told them that they only get requisitions from the county executive. That work is her duty. I am sure that the purpose of specific requisitions are stated when requests are taken to her. That includes the requisitions for county assemblies. That is why we devolved the Office of the Controller of Budget. They have representatives in all our 47 county governments. It is possible that she feigned ignorance. However, I do not understand how the nine members of that Committee, the clerk and the legal counsel of the Committee accepted that as an answer. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to be serious if this House indeed caters for the interests of devolution. This matter stinks to the highest of heavens. It is not fair for this to happen in a country governed by the rule of law."
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