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    "id": 446919,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to speak to these important amendments. I would like to support the amendments given by the Committee that we gave the mandate to do mediation. I believe Kenyans had very high expectations out of devolution. I want to support the Government for trying as much as it could to devolve most of the functions and give substantial amounts of money meant to cushion the poor mwananchi in the grassroots. However, unfortunately, the dreams of many Kenyans have been shattered by the governors who have not interpreted correctly the intentions of wananchi who have been craving for devolved systems. There are serious conflicts on the ground. That is because in devolution, we expected governors who knew their roles and Senators would take full charge. After all, they were seasoned politicians. Unfortunately, we put in place many politicians who were semi-retired or who were about to retire or who were old and senile and so far, they have let the governors to run the show as they wish. The governors, either because of fear or because of coming into contact with their marauding MCAs who are still councillor material--- The intention was to make Members of the County Assemblies our colleagues. Today, we have serious problems on the ground and wananchi have not been given proper initiation to know what devolution stands for. They still look up to Members of Parliament as being their solution. We have a lot of money voted for projects which are non-existent. A lot of that is duplication of what Members of Parliament are doing. We cannot account for the monies given to the counties. Their priority is to buy guzzlers, making endless trips and having lots of retreats which the mwananchi down there on the ground does not need. I think this move we have taken will help. The MPs must be called to these boards and they should be able to oversee them so that we ensure that wananchi have value for their money. This is a very good step and it must be implemented. I support."
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