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    "id": 469454,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to start by congratulating the Senator for Siaya for bringing such an important Motion to the Senate. If you look at the operations of the county governments, although in their infancy, you will get a very clear impression, as the Senator for Meru said that there is every intention to malnourish this child. All things are going wrong. You cannot start county assemblies with no intention to make them assemblies to do their work. All you need to do is to look around and see comparable jurisdictions that have similar sets; the provincial legislatures and governments in South Africa, the State Legislatures and Governments in Nigeria and in Cameroon, among other places, you will see that we got it all wrong. We seem to think that county assembly members and structures are a promotion in a very miniscule manner of county councils. That is not what we intended. It is not right that you put a Governor in place, give him a good salary, give him Kshs300 million to build a mansion and no corresponding Kshs300 million to build a little house for the Speaker and no talk on how to handle the very assembly that will legislate, oversight and do everything else in the county. You are asking County Assembly Members in Nairobi to pass and oversight a budget of Kshs15 billion and yet you are paying them Kshs79,000 a month. If our intention was to tame corruption, then we are 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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