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    "id": 622260,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/622260/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 170,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the Petition from Bukhayo Ward in Busia County. But I beg to disagree with my colleagues who think that there is failure in the county assemblies. County assemblies all over the country are working. The problem is that whereas in the national Parliament we have tyranny of numbers, in the county assemblies we have tyranny of the governors’ loyalists. The good Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) who are out there doing oversight and challenging the governors are usually over-run. Therefore, it would be unfair for us to condemn all the MCAs. For example, MCAs in Vihiga County are doing a good job. There is a Petition which came from Vihiga the other day where out of the whole assembly only 13 MCAs refused a bribe from the governor. In Kakamega County, MCAs are doing a beautiful job, which led to the illegal removal of the Deputy Speaker who has since been reinstated by the High Court. Let us not condemn the MCAs wholesomely. It should disturb people in Kenya that whereas Bukhayo Central Ward, like many other wards is complaining about failure to have optics by way of development, one thing that the Controller of Budget is screaming about in her latest release is how county The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}