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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to also take this opportunity to, first of all, congratulate the Speaker of the Senate who has been sitting here for close to six hours today for the first time. I also wish to congratulate the present Chair because we are now going to another hour. I congratulate each and everybody. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also wish to congratulate Senators, my colleagues. We can pat ourselves on the back because of what we have done in this period. More particularly today we have been able to table the Bill on the flagship activity of Senators, that is, the Bill on County Allocation of Revenue. This is, perhaps, one of the major things that we will be doing in this country. All I want to say this afternoon is that I expect the county chiefs or the governors to take time to make professional budgets because they now have time and the expertise. We are doing this early so that we can give them time to do that. This time we want to use the Division of Revenue and the resources of this country to truly say that devolution is here to stay. Therefore, we want to request that the budgets should reflect the purpose of devolution. To my colleague Senators, I would like to say that we are going out this time to become the face of devolution as we move around our counties propagating the whole aspect of devolution as has been expanded by the Constitution of this country. It is here to stay and as Senators we should come out as the face of devolution which is the essence of why the Senate exists. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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