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    "id": 427343,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know this is a Procedural Motion and ordinarily all of us would be requesting you to put the question. But it is important to raise a few things with regard to this Procedural Motion. As I support the Motion, I want to congratulate the Senate Majority Leader. One of the greatest responsibilities of this House is to consider and pass the two very crucial Bills that go towards financing of our county governments. A lot of things have been said in the last two or so months. A number of governors have been quoted suggesting that this House is not committed to supporting devolution in this country. Some of the issues that we are handling in this House like reducing the publication period to ensure that we are able to do our responsibility as a Senate to support county governments should be noticed by Kenyans that this is a commitment by this House to support devolution. Therefore, some of the governors that have been quoted trying to do civic education on Senators, that we need to protect county governments and support devolution, need to know that we have not been prompted by the Council of Governors to move this Procedural Motion. We have not even been prompted by governors to do the responsibility that we are committed to do. In the same vein, Members from the minority side, some of them have been reported of accusing the Government of not being committed to support devolution. This is a Motion moved by the Senate Majority Leader. This shows the commitment of the Jubilee Government to support devolution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion and urge the Members of this House that we all work together in ensuring that counties have resources that they require."
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