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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kabando wa Kabando",
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        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "The ODM Chairman has a particular gravitas around there which is not in tandem with the proceedings in the House. That reality is there. Apart from what is captured in this Report, we had lengthy, friendly, very solid and detailed discussions with the delegation from the Senate led by the Deputy Speaker of the Senate and a veteran of this Parliament, Hon. Kiraitu Murungi, and we agreed that there are those challenges and they need to be reviewed. Going forward, we should consider making constitutional amendments that will allow the Senate to have a greater role. No wonder you see very many Senators - every week you learn of a Senator - running for the seat of a governor. The reality is that the Senate, which is popularly elected by hundreds of thousands of votes cast to Senators in the counties, is completely unable to control the runaway corruption and impunities in the counties. Members of the county assemblies sometimes submit petitions like it happened in Nyeri County. It comes to the national level then there is frustration, not because people do not want to act, but because they are toothless. In conclusion, I repeat the politics of timing. We are in November 2016 and elections are in August 2017 at the earliest. These activities, even if permitted, and I am saying this is not why the Committee passed this, the recommendations of the Committee are based on law and the Constitution, but I am just adding that the public spirit cannot be separated completely from the budget-making process and from appropriations. We must be conscious of and sensitive to the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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