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    "id": 451419,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was here but I had just gone out, so do not think I was away. I want to take this opportunity to commend the President for a Speech well delivered and touching on various issues which are key to our lives and the common man. More so, on the idea of devolution, that the Jubilee Government supports it and it has ensured that the functions which would have taken three years to devolve have already been devolved. What I would simply urge is that we encourage a better way of working between the national Government and the county governments because currently there is unhealthy competition between the two. For example, where I come from, every day the county government and the national Government try to outshine each other. Like today in Bomet, some offices are locked, like the Ministry of Public Works simply because the county government wants to kick them out. They are saying that the issue of county roads is a devolved function. They mean that the offices must be vacated and occupied by the county government. So, I am urging that there should be harmonization so that nobody is kicked out of their offices. No one should be seen to be irrelevant at whatever level even if they belong to the national Government. In fact, I urge those concerned to continue occupying those offices without any intimidation."
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