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    "id": 648601,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Finally, I want to say that, probably, I am the only Member of Parliament who wanted to go to Meru. I disagree with our members who are saying we should not go. I respect you, Hon. Speaker, when you said we do not need to go but, personally, I would have wanted to go for one reason; that if I disagree with them, at the very least, let me whistle blow when I am in Meru. If I disagree with them, let me go there and whistle blow. However, as the National Assembly, we also need to interrogate the Senators on their roles. They are taking back their roles and giving us as National Assembly to oversee what governors are doing. Most of them are busy trying to get governors off their seats. We made a mistake. We should have made a law that says that once you serve as a Senator, you should stay out for five years before you become a governor so that when they do their oversight role, it is serious oversight role. I was listening to the Senators as they were discussing this issue. Each of them was just engaged on how they can give a very serious political attack on the people they want to unseat from those seats. Therefore, they are giving devolution a bad name when Kenyans are very happy with it. Hon. Speaker, give us a chance so that we can interrogate the legal standing of this fund because, as the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs has said, it has no standing in law."
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