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    "id": 490000,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/490000/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, first, I want to support the amendment. Indeed, it is quite timely and right that this amendment came to this House, to ensure that county assemblies get their money in time. Secondly, we also need to ask ourselves: When the money goes to the county assemblies, do we, as the Senate, want to follow up and make sure that it is spent responsibly? The answer is “yes.” The Senate must and has a duty to ensure that this money is put to proper, right and good use, so that it serves the people of the counties. Mr. Chairman, there are two questions that I would want to address. The first one is: We know that MCAs are requesting for mortgages which are loans. If they can be accommodated within that scheme, well and good, because they will pay back. Do we want a strong county assembly? The answer is yes, we want them to be strong. They have made applications in public to be given offices. If that can be availed just as the Senators have asked for offices, so be it because we want them to be strong. The final question that I would like to address is this question of ceilings. Mr. Chairman, Sir, there is a document here that has been circulated by the CRA and looking at it randomly if you pick on, for example, Bungoma County Assembly---"
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