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    "id": 551855,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is always very refreshing to hear the Swahili of the Hon. Senator from Kwale. This House will be inundated with petitions from the counties. It is an indication that all is not well within the counties. The concern of this Senate should be about the county assemblies. If, indeed, the assemblies were up to task, we would not be having all these. There are so many letters that we are getting from counties asking for this or that. I also request your office to probably guide at the time petitions are being set so that they can be more specific to one or two issues rather than have them so broad. They literally cover everything that happens in that county. It becomes difficult to deal with them because of the limitations the other institutions that we rely on like the Auditor-General’s office have. Otherwise, this is an indication that things are not going right in the counties. The Senate needs to be concerned because we are here courtesy of the counties; to represent their interests; to protect the counties and their governments. The fact that everyone is complaining every day about what is happening in the counties--- Clearly the Governors whom my dear friend from Mombasa was so keen to read their statement for hours are not up to task. We all come from counties and we know what is happening. It is very painful to see that the little money that we struggle – taxpayers in this country pay taxes - we struggle here day and night trying to get money to these institutions and yet it is wasted due to lavishness and conspicuous consumption. The things that the national Government used to do in the 1980s and 1990s are now taking root in many of our counties. We need to send messages to many of these counties that if someone attempts to play with the resources, mismanage counties and kill the hopes of Kenyans on devolution, they will pay a price. It is time we speak very clearly. There are few petitions that have been referred to us – yesterday there was one, today, there is one and tomorrow, there may be another one. We need to send a message so that Governors can read the writing on the wall, that it will not be acceptable for them to continue in that path and that they need to change. Otherwise we will not accept their messages. It does not help that you accuse---"
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