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    "id": 484932,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Lastly, I want to speak about the question of county development boards. I wish to congratulate Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna for what she has said on the question of county development boards: That our good governors should have no fear. The other thing that has been propagated out there is that the county development board is coming and is giving Senators certain executive powers over the governors. It is important for Kenyans to know that this is far from the truth. What the county development boards are seeking to do is to simply create a forum where we can coordinate development within our own counties. I must say devolution is one of the best things that has happened and from what hon. Ng’ongo has said, it is true and I can testify in this House that there are those governors who have done extremely well. There are those counties where members of the public have started reaping the fruits of real devolution. But there are those counties, like my own and a few others, where we are still suffering from what hon. Ng’ongo was saying - that if Kenyans have suffered for 50 years--- I come from a constituency which, since Independence, has been marginalized simply because we have always elected Members of Parliament from the Kabete side of the constituency. So, it is only this time round. In these first two years after the last elections, members of the public from Kikuyu Constituency can start to taste the true fruits of our Independence and freedom. I, therefore, want to encourage hon. Members to support the implementation of the Act that brought about the county development boards because these boards---"
}