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    "id": 634213,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I join my colleagues in welcoming to the Senate the delegations from the county assemblies of Kilifi, Nyamira and Vihiga who have come to benchmark with the Senate. The county assemblies of this Republic are the primary institutions of accountability and oversight at the county level. We, as the Senate, depend on them as an apex institution of oversight and accountability. I congratulate those MCAs who have done a sterling job in bringing to account the executive at the county level. However, there are many other MCAs who have become errand boys for governors. They are following governors the way flies follow a carcass. They want to benefit from the crumbs of what those who are plundering the counties are eating. Time has come for us as Senate to encourage more visits from MCAs so that we can strengthen them and enhance their capacity to stop the theft, plunder and massive waste of public resources that we see in all the counties. We welcome these delegations. We send them back to their colleagues to encourage them to come here and enhance their capacity to stop that theft, plunder and looting that are going on massively in this country."
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