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    "id": 385487,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Do not speak as if you are representing largely and fully the interest of the national Government. You might be in an arrangement of a coalition which forms the Executive, but your interest in this Senate is defined. There can be no better interest than to give a clean slate to our counties to start afresh, notwistanding how these debts were acquired, because it is the responsibility of that national Government that was here to pay these debts. I do not feel it is appropriate for the people of Mombasa to start on the devolution agenda on account of a debt acquired from sources or departments that they do not know. We talk as if we are ignorant of the fact that municipalities were little condominiums for the national Governments. They were managed by town clerks who took direct authority and direct instructions from the national Government, the Permanent Secretary and the Minister in charge of Local Government. Let me remind you, again, Senators; your people elected you here to defend their interests and no other interests."
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