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    "id": 659040,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the Motion. This is routine adjournment set by the calendar save that in this particular incident, we are extending the period for a short while for the reason that we want to have a conference on devolution. It will be a conference that will critically evaluate devolution, its pros, cons, successes, failures and challenges. It is not going to be an opportunity for masters of corruption to grandstand and pretend that they have changed the lives of people when, in fact, what they have changed is their lives, their cohorts, sycophants and their families. This House stands in unity with devolution, and we support what we are mandated to do under Article 96 of the Constitution. As we go on recess, I encourage all Members to turn up without exception in Mombasa to meet MCAs and assembly speakers who have promised to be there without exception. Unlike the offensive cadre of our governors, we will invite them to come and see how to run a devolution conference. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you cannot have a devolution conference in the manner that we saw in Kisumu County. The distinguished professor was not even on the list. He was not even asked to receive their valued guests and neither was he on the opening programme or anywhere. I saw the same pattern in the Meru County Conference. The distinguished Senator for Meru County as the host Senator was given exactly the same dose that the Kisumu County Senator was given when we went to Kisumu. He was not put anywhere in the programme. I do not know if you were in Kisumu but colleagues were there and Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o was there. As the leadership of the House, there was no place to sit. The governors had paraded themselves, sitting like they had arrived and that they did not need anybody, and that the Senate is a nuisance to be confined where you can confine a nuisance. This is not how to run a country especially when we are now at a critical moment of evaluating five years after the passage of the new Constitution. The anchorage that made Kenyans of good will vote for this Constitution overwhelmingly is devolution. However, is it working? Are these high profile stories that read like an"
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