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    "id": 371963,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "So, what you are doing is the right thing, and Members ought to understand; I was going to ask you that you keep referring Members to Schedule IV of the Constitution. Some issues belong to counties. What we are trying to do is to ask questions, which the ward representatives should be asking the governors. It is very important because, even when I talk to ward representatives across the country, they seem to think that they should refer some of their functions to us. I think that this House has a duty, through you, to guide the country through the teething problems. Remember, the only answer to this predicament may be to revise the structure of Government, so that the Government sits in Parliament. We have been used for 50 years to interrogating the Government. How do we oversee people we do not know where they are? Right now, they are busy using chase cars, and doing all sorts of things. We do not know where those people are. We may need to confront this issue as a country in a way that allows the Government to sit in front of us and we talk directly to it. If we do not go the parliamentary system, we may face some monster or mongrel of an arrangement; we were so used to the old system since Independence. Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir."
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