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    "id": 481461,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Kennedy Mong'are Okong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also support this Motion. I concur with my colleague Senators who have raised this issue and send a very clear message, especially to my governor to read the signs of the times very clearly. I hope he will appear before our Committee where we will guide him and clear him the way we have done with the Governor of Kwale. We must commend the Governors of Kwale and Tatia Taveta counties. They are men of repute and substance. They honoured the invitation and came with their teams and we cleared them. I do not understand when I see a young governor like one Governor Mandago going back to Uasin Gishu in a public gathering and saying that even school children know that he is more senior and more powerful than the Senator. A governor paid Kshs60 million in advance to a contractor and when we challenged him and asked him to come with proper documentation, he went to the public and said that he is very senior to face the Senate and that the Senate should be disbanded. Those kind of governors must understand that we defend devolution through constitutional provisions. Now and again, I have told the people of Nyamira that I am the 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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