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    "id": 490011,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Sir, for this opportunity. I want to support this amendment, but I also want to say that the issues you are hearing our side raising all along with regard to the county assemblies is because this Senate has endeared itself as one of the institutions that protects devolution. Some of the committees of this House have invited Governors to come and shed light on a number of issues that are going on in our counties and the Council of Governors have claimed that that should be done by the county assemblies and not the Senate. When you look at the county assemblies, the reason they are unable to do proper oversight is because they are not adequately facilitated. We need to provide adequate facilitation to the county assemblies to ensure that they are able to do oversight. We are conscious when we pass this law and the resources go to the county governments. If the CRA and the Council of Governors insist on budget ceilings, the county assemblies will not get the adequate resources that they need for oversight. Therefore, we need to support them, give them adequate resources for them to undertake their constitutional responsibility of oversight. I support the county assemblies and the Motion."
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