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    "id": 422487,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/422487/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "We cannot underestimate governors and start undermining devolution in this country by weakening the governor’s position. A governor is a politician who has a mandate, sells his policy during the campaigns and people buy that policy and grant a mandate to him on the basis of his campaign pledges; we cannot presume that a board chaired by a Senator and a different political force, will determine development priorities. This cannot happen through a Bill like this one. Such a new law will negate the process and we will end up with stalemates in many different ways. I know it has been very fashionable of late to knock at our governors; many of them have made some mistakes, but let us not look at personalities. Let us strive to create a united country with strong institutions and positions, which people with knowledge can run for in the future, rather than dilute them now; we have just been implementing policies in counties for one year."
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