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    "id": 535358,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kisoi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Manthi Kisoi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to join colleagues in saluting His Excellency the President for the Speech that he gave as an address to the nation. I applaud him for coming out so clearly in issues of devolution. He was very categorical when he was addressing the nation and said that he reluctantly formed a commission to start the dissolution of the Makueni County. He just fell short of my expectations. There are no two ways; either the President is for dissolution or not for it. I want to urge His Excellency the President that he took the mandate and swore by the Constitution to protect devolution. Under whatever circumstances and means, he must come out clean and categorically state that he does not completely support dissolution of counties. He will be setting a precedent in this country that he will not be able to deal with. We have various cases that are lying here. We have the Narok case, which is serious; Embu, Machakos, Turkana and other counties. The President must stand firm. The last time he visited Kibwezi in Makueni, he spoke about it candidly. When the Deputy President visited Mbooni, he also spoke about it. Those who wrote the President‟s Speech should have consulted him very well to know his body language that he must and stands for the protection of devolution and therefore, he does not stand for dissolution."
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