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"content": "Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is an English word. It does not require a rocket scientist to tell us the roles of a county assembly. We know that their job is to oversight, legislate and represent people. We are reducing them to paupers. In fact, we are making them worse than when they were councillors and I suspect that this is deliberate on the part of the governors. Most of them are giving them handouts, so that they are reduced to paupers so as to get support for their Motions. I find that this Motion very timely. What is the purpose of the executive giving MCA bodyguards when they do not even have vehicles? Will they ride on motorcycles with bodyguards? This Commission, if allowed to go the way it is going, will become loose cannon. Very soon, even the mandarins at the Treasury who are busy controlling them will not control them. I suspect and repeat that this may become the story of the Arab and the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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