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    "id": 697649,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I commend the Members of the County Assembly from Garissa County for bringing this Petition to the Senate. The county assemblies are supposed to oversight the executive at the county level. Among the things they do is ensuring that the budget is done and then further, the implementation of the same. They also have responsibility on how debts are incurred in the counties. In the first year, when we were summoning the governors, they have been quick to say that they are being oversighted by the county assemblies. However, this is a case that they are resisting that oversight. We have to take that seriously and the relevant committee has to ensure that this kind of impasse is solved so that the residents of Garissa County do not have to suffer because the executive and the county assembly are not seeing eye to eye and that there is no budget for 2016/17. Regarding the issue of regulations, yesterday there was a petition here about the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act and the regulations. Therefore, the committee also needs to look at this so that the hands of the MCAs are not tied by regulations which are being made by Treasury which seem to be favouring the executive."
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