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    "id": 1565787,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565787/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Over the weekend, we had an occasion with some of our colleagues from the National Assembly to attend a function in Migori. The Senate Majority Leader was there. Part of the conversation we had when we were having lunch with our colleagues from the National Assembly is that they thought that not everything between our two Houses has to come to a stalemate before it is addressed. It saddens me that for the third year straight that I have been a Senator of Nairobi City County, the National Assembly is again inviting us to a stalemate on this question of the division of revenue. I ask myself the question, why do we have to have a mediation every single year? I have never understood why our brothers in the National Assembly cannot just do what is right by devolution and what is right by the people. If indeed they know the recommendation that has been made by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), why can they not just give counties the Kshs450 billion that we have been asking for? We will do what we have to do and fight for the rights of"
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