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    "id": 666438,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "I stand to be corrected if there is any of the newly created initiatives and platforms in the new Constitution that are not finding their way into being faithful to the Constitution. We are still in the very early stages of the implementation of the Constitution. This is, probably, the third or fourth Budget of the new Government that is implementing this Constitution. We had a long session today and asked ourselves many question. If I can give you an example, we have county assemblies whose role is to oversee county governments. There is a general consensus in the country right now that governors are hardly being overseen by county assemblies. We ask ourselves what the role of county assemblies is in the new dispensation. We then debated the whole question of giving Senators more money. We asked ourselves if we give more money, how will they use it to oversee the governors if they do not have that mandate given to them by the Constitution or statute? What point do I want to make? If we judge ourselves too harshly in these early stages, we shall be unrealistic on how processes move. What is quite clear to me, as the Chairman of this Committee, is that the interaction, the very fertile interaction between the National Treasury and the Committees of the House and between the Budget and Appropriations Committee and Plenary is a relationship that is on-going, has a lot of energy and seeks to be faithful to the programmes of the Government."
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