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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": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill, which I support with amendments. This is one of the very good statutes that were enacted by the 10th Parliament. We have to think very carefully before we bring amendments to it because it gives Parliament the very serious powers of oversight over administration of public finances. I know that the amendments we are bringing are fairly attractive, especially because quite a number of them seem to target the county governments. However, I want us to exercise a lot of caution, so that as we exercise our role as the National Assembly or as Parliament, which is a standard setting, we do not encroach on the constitutional mandate that is given to counties in devolution. There are counties which have been marginalised over the years, which now benefit from devolution. We know that most of the governors have done a lot of things which have made us ashamed. They have moved away from the principles on which devolution was based. However, I still want us to exercise a lot of caution so that we do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. If you look at some of those amendments, they seem to take away those powers. Probably, we would be left with former county councils. That is not what we set. We are not a centralised Government, but a devolved Government."
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