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    "id": 453843,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I have also heard – I know this may not please many people – people saying that they did not elect mini-presidents in the county. I want to repeat that we elected mini-presidents in the counties. If we did not want to elect mini-presidents in the counties, we should have amended the Constitution. Hon. Speaker, once you are a Member of Parliament you would want to be a governor in future, or senator. I would want to be a governor and I can run a county. Why not? I have the expertise in finance and I have the experience in politics. I can do it.Therefore, instead of being jealous and envious of what the governors are doing, let us also work hard and go and replace them. If you so wish and if you want that stress of running the counties where people can even come and lock your office just for a small technical mistake--- Hon. Speaker, I want to plead with this Parliament. This is my last comment let us not get into the turf wars of Senate and governors. Let us give the governor space to operate. What really troubles me at times is the fact that wherever there is a small mistake, we amplify it as if devolution has failed. Devolution has just started, let us give these governors space, but we criticize them constructively. I criticize my governor a lot. I tell him where he should change; but where he has also done well, I appreciate. I appreciate and that is the spirit that we need to embrace. It is not that we do not want to work with the Senators, but it is them who wanted that seat. In fact, if you look at the role of the Senate, the people of Kenya wanted these people to have peace of mind. It was a House to relax in; it was not a House to give yourself trouble like they are doing now trying to give themselves too much trouble by giving themselves too much work of chairing meetings almost every three months. People will ask them questions: You told us that this will be done, how come it has not been done? Let the Senators relax!"
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