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    "id": 548414,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I totally agree with the Chair, but I want him to make a clarification. We are approaching the19th May launch of that draft, and this was a parliamentary process. The Budget and Appropriations Committee allocated money and an expert team was formed. I want him to clarify to the country and this House; we are talking about devolution and county assemblies. Could he clarify whether the Senate, as another House, input was taken? To our knowledge, sometime back the leadership of the National Assembly appeared before that Committee. The Senate, through its leadership, has declined to appear before those experts. I want the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to tell the country that the Senate as a House, the Speaker and rest of its leadership, has declined to appear before those experts. If they did, then we are fine. If they have not appeared and their input is not in that report, then we need to do serious consultations before the launch of that report. We cannot get the feedback on how devolution, as a chapter in the Constitution, is working when the input of the people who are mandated by the Constitution has not been put into the report. I am not sure. Maybe the Chairman has information and can tell us if the leadership of the Senate, at a later stage, agreed to give its expert opinion. This is the Speaker, the Clerk and everybody. For us in the National Assembly, we did. If they have not done it, then we need to do serious consultations between now and 19th May. We want to carry everybody in the auditing of the Constitution and its functions. We cannot present a document or a draft, to the people of Kenya when such an important legislative organ called the Senate has not had its input. I am not sure if they have changed their mind and presented their views."
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