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    "id": 518371,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang-Nyong’o",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I apologize to my friend, Sen. G.G. Kariuki. It was with a light touch. Sometimes both in courts and in the Houses of Representatives the world over, there are light moments just to reduce the heavy weight of serious debate. But having said that, I hope my colleague will take it with a light touch. I will not revisit that issue again. Finally, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, so that I give my colleagues time to speak more on this, now that we have a new beginning with county governments, this is a new era in our structure of government, we should not let me underline the word “not” - allow the bad manners of the past to be imported into county governance. If the current governors or executives in the counties begin laying the pattern of heavy reliance on harambees for social development, we shall lose the role of devolution because devolution was created so that we can take more resources to the grassroots for socio- economic development. That is why when we think of the health sector, we emphasize that it is taking so much money in county budgets. That, if we do not vote more money from the national Government to go into counties to take care of social welfare programs like education, health and water resources, then we shall have county governments again appealing to the public to subsidize its expenditures to meet the needs of social welfare projects. If we realize the importance of increasing allocations to county governments, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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