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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "meet Hon. Kiraitu Murungi, tell him how they can get more powers. However, there is a better route. The better route is for them to wait for 2017 and go back and vie as a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) or a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly. The MCAs have serious legislative and oversight authority in the counties. We do not want to put the county into a political mood. I am sure a lot of my colleagues here, such as Hon. Cecily Mbarire, want to vie for governorship. There are many governors-in-waiting here. There are many MCAs who want to become Members of Parliament. We want to tell the Senators that they do not need the powers. The powers are in the National Assembly or the presidency. You can vie as a presidential candidate. The danger of that is if you lose, you will also go back to the streets. The safest route through which you will get assured power is to invest in being a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly, where you can reallocate billions not just Kshs1 billion. Lastly and more fundamentally, as Hon. Mbadi said, is about the Kshs800 million that we took from the Judiciary. I saw the son of the man I had a lot of respect for from the last Parliament, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Junior, misinforming the country that the Kshs800 million was meant for salaries, building and cleaning courts all over the country. That is why we have a Supplementary Budget. If we feel like it, we can return that Kshs800 million before the end of the 2015/2016 Financial Year. If they now engage the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we can still save them through the Appropriation Bill. The problem is that they are just talking and not reading the law. I want to ask my colleagues not to waste any more time in fighting the Senate. If you want to fight, there are 15 Bills which are of a money nature, which ideally should not have started from the Senate. Article 109 (5) of the Constitution says:"
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