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    "id": 518087,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/518087/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "Each and every county has its own social and economic dynamics, which, sitting in Nairobi, may be very difficult to understand. That is why the business of deciding where the headquarters of the various counties should be, should be left to the counties themselves. They can do this by building consensus among the communities and then later on legislating in their County Assemblies. It is not true to say that a governor can wake up one day and say that he wants the county headquarters next to his home and it happens. These headquarters are centres of development and progress. In democracies such as the one we have in Kenya, where a governor is elected by the people, it is unimaginable that a governor can single handedly decide where the headquarters of the county is meant to be. Probably, we will have to re-look at our Constitution and give more mandate to the Senate, so that they can have more business to transact. There is a tendency that sometimes they encroach on areas that may not necessarily be theirs."
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