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    "id": 597130,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, just an intervention. On the day we appointed this Special Committee, I brought to the attention of this House the possible consequences of us failing to plan well with the Committee with the restriction of the 10 days within which this Committee is supposed to submit a report to this House. I made a passionate plea that we have an arrangement with this Committee where we urge them to ensure that these Senators will have enough time to interrogate the report before coming to plenary. This is now when the chickens have come home to roost. None of these Senators had the opportunity to read through the report by this Committee. However, I want to state to the Committee and any other subsequent committees that nowadays the world has gone paperless. If Members of the Committee were constrained of time, they would have even emailed the report to all of us. We should have had the report in our email addresses as we discuss it. Nonetheless, now that we have it and the Governor of Murang’a County is let loose, we, as the Senate, must pass a word to county governments that we know governors are plundering resources of this country. They are not prudently using the resources they are receiving from the national Government. It is important that when the Governor goes back to work with his team, he must find his ground. He must make sure that this is dealt with. If that is how this Senate will---"
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