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    "id": 491987,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. As a Senate, we are supposed to represent and protect the interests of counties and their governments. That is what we have been doing, to come with the necessary legislations and to make sure that funds are available. If things are going wrong at the county assemblies, we should establish necessary legislation and ensure that resources are made available. However, if the counties we are supposed to protect are not moving in the right direction, as a Senate, we cannot sit down and continue putting in place enabling legislation when counties are not moving in the right direction as we are seeing now. There is a lot of wrangling in the counties. Other counties that have not come out may also be having problems. Therefore, we must do something. My problem with this Motion is; what happens after we adjourn? Is there any framework of engagement with the county governments? If there is no framework, we will adjourn for the 21 days and come back but things will not have been sorted out. We need to have a clear framework on how to engage the immediate counties of Isiolo and Makueni which have problems and then come up with a framework of sorting out the problems as they develop in other counties. However, if this will just be a recess without any timetable, framework and plan of who will go there, then we will not be solving any problem. We may end up in the same direction where we will appear as a House that likes to go on recess. By the time we come back, the problems will even have gone out of hand. We should sort out these problems when we are still in session rather than when we are on recess. If anything happens, we may have to be recalled. Unless there is a framework, we may not be doing anything. If the Motion is to be passed as it is, without a framework, I oppose."
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