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    "id": 706849,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "The National Assembly cannot be seen to be fighting, in perpetuity, with the Senate. At some point, we must say that Senators must be facilitated to do their duty. Senators are people of very great respect in this country. When they walk around and they sometimes have to be subdued by governors who have a lot of money and who they are trying to oversee, it does not look good. We say that counties are losing resources through corruption yet we know very well that many of our county assemblies have not shown capacity to effectively offer oversight to the county governments. We need to be fair. Again, as the National Assembly, we take away facilitation from the Senate to do this. For you to oversee and move around, you need resources. You cannot be able to meet people, talk to them and ask them whether they are enjoying the projects with your mileage funds. Honestly, is it possible? Nairobi County, for example, has no mileage funds. The counties that surround Nairobi have no mileage funds. So, how are the Senators in these areas going to effectively oversee county governments? I want to agree with my colleagues that I see no good faith in the rejection or annulment of these regulations. Just the same way there has been back and forth in adjusting the regulations, I want to urge the Committee on Delegated Legislation to sit down with the Senate Committee as we have done. Let us point them to exactly where we need them to make correction. Let them make that correction. Let us pass these regulations. Let us give Senators this money. Let them do their job. Time is running out, as somebody correctly pointed out. Honestly, we do not expect to run out of this Parliament and into the next. The PSC is all the time, including our Speaker who chairs the PSC, accused of favouring the National Assembly and sidelining the Senate. We do not want this to also appear as one of those areas where we are being told we do not equally serve our sister House or our brother House, the Senate."
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