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    "id": 543800,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First of all, I want to thank the House for the confidence that they have shown through the appointment of Sen. Elachi, Sen. Khalwale and I. Even though some people in the other House or this House will get annoyed, what we are trying to address here is who is going to be responsible for hospitals not running, emergencies in the counties or not being addressed and MCAs not being paid their salaries. We do not want to be held responsible for calamities happening and there is no money, for hospitals not having medicine. We want the Members of County Assembly (MCAs) to get some money. That is why we have agreed to be Members of this Committee. There is nothing else we are going to negotiate for. Those are the three sectors we need to address ourselves to. Members of Parliament are members of a county and they are supposed to be responsible for what is happening in their counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must never have so much egos here in the Senate and in the National Assemblies, particularly the chairmanship of Committees. We should not begin to bite the hands that feed us in the counties. I do not think we need to start biting noses to spite our faces. Therefore, as we go to the negotiating table, we do so from the strength given by this House and realizing that we negotiate from good faith; we will never negotiate out of fear, but we will never fear to negotiate."
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