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    "id": 263155,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, because of time, I want to ask the Government and probably, Members of Parliament, to propose an amendment to be very clear on what is to be done to the provincial administration. I think, as a country, we need to stop this cat and mouse game that we are playing with the provincial administration. It is either we have them or we do not have them. If you look at the Constitution, it is very clear that we have executive powers at two levels of Government; the national Government and county government. This, therefore, means that the county Governor has the executive powers. We cannot again have a parallel Executive authority in the county, that is answerable to some other office outside the county. We need to be very clear on what we are going to do with the provincial administration. If we require them we should say so and if we do not require them, we need to find a mechanism of doing away with them, without hurting the personnel which is there, because they are Kenyans. We should look for a safe landing ground for them, but we must send a message out there that this is how this country is going to be governed in terms of Executive authority."
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