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    "id": 674825,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/674825/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "public appointments for county assemblies. We should give security of tenure to the equivalence of Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) at the county levels and some kind of roles primarily so that they are not just clerks of governors. That way, they can competently appear before various Committees of the county assemblies and answer questions. We have heard stories of people who have no control of their budgets and those who can be dropped and changed at will. It is okay because they serve at the pleasure of the governors, but that also weakens the supervisory role of the county assemblies. It also weakens the powers and privileges enshrined or envisaged in this law. We should be role models for the county assemblies. We should have some kind of mentorship programme with MCAs because as time goes by, they are the members who are going to populate this House and they are going to rise above echelons of politics and Government. We must ensure that we have a sustainable legislative culture that would ensure that our people get the right laws, policies and pronouncements from the august Houses."
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