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    "id": 499896,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mining has to take place within one county or another. So, for any person to pretend that this law does not affect the counties, he must only not be a lawyer but somebody out of his mind. Time has come for the Senate to fight for its own space. We have a lot of enemies; there are people who do not want to see us within the counties because they say that the work of the Senate is in Nairobi. When we come to Nairobi, the National Assembly says that we have no business passing laws because our work is in the counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we invite the governors to our committees to account for the national Government monies being authorized by the Senate to the counties, the accountability law is also being denied by the courts. Time has come for us to create our able space. Otherwise the Senate will be emasculated and wound up like the Senate that we had in the 1960’s. A lot of laws have been passed, even in agriculture. We have the Crops Act which was passed by the National Assembly without any reference at all to the Senate, as if there is any agriculture taking place anywhere outside the counties."
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