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    "id": 542416,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "we are dealing with is a concerted effort by the Senate to depict this House, the National Assembly, as a House that is anti-devolution. This is the perception we want the public to know that it is not the case, because in support of devolution, we allocated Senators, on the Floor of this House, Kshs1 billion to go and monitor devolution; we want them to go and see that it is working. That is in support of devolution. Hon. Speaker, when we say that we are adding money to Level 5 hospitals, when we debated the BPS, we made additional provisions to Level 5 hospitals. Why am I saying that this is PR? Why am I convinced that this is a concerted and continuous effort to portray this House as anti-devolution? More than half of the monies that are being added are for emergencies. How critical is emergency? What is emergency? The county can allocate itself emergency funds, but when you say you want us to go to mediation to create an emergency fund, what are you telling the country? You are telling the country that you want the Senate to look like the saints, and that they are the ones who support devolution and the National Assembly look like the enemies of devolution. This is the perception that, as a House, I do not think we should concede to. The Leader of the Majority Party has already said it and I associate myself with his comments, that there is no single person, institution or House that should claim ownership of devolution. Devolution is for all of us. We voted for it as a country; all of us voted to benefit from the fruits of devolution. We are struggling. There are weaknesses that have been pointed out. We hope that those weaknesses will be fixed, so that devolution works. We do not want to be squeezed to a corner, as a House, and portrayed as anti-devolution, because people want to play PR with an important process such as a budget-making. Hon. Speaker, the leadership of the Senate must be serious. We must talk these things openly. We have spent a lot of money, as the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), on lawyers and lawsuits that we do not know where they come from and where they are going, simply because we want to make this kind of a mistake. The monies we spend on lawyers should be spent by Kenyans on other things. We do not want to be put in a corner, from where we are always running to court on things that can be avoided such as a process that has already been agreed on and has already moved forward. The Senate must be sincere; I oppose."
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