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    "id": 422618,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "That is far from the truth because this Bill is not proposing that the Senators and the members of the county assemblies or Members of the National Assembly in the counties sit in the Executive of the county governments. The governor and his County Executive Committee will still be in charge of the implementation of all the executive decisions at the county level. Our Constitution gives us, as the representatives of the people, a mandate to provide oversight over the Government, be it at the national level or at the county level. Therefore, we must not run away from that responsibility. We cannot be the ones to provide oversight at the county government level if we do not know what that county government is doing at the county level. But if there is a forum where we as Members of the National Assembly, are consulting with the members of the county assemblies, the governor and the Senator and we are all aware of what is being done at the county level, we will be in a better position to provide oversight over those county governments. The resources that we will be providing oversight over are resources that have been given from the national Government."
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