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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Irrigation could walk with me and the county government to provide that very vital facility. Up to now, we cannot make headway because there are no linkages amongst the three organs of the government. Therefore, as recommended here, we should have a competent institution to oversee devolution such that various Government institutions can interrelate with county governments in a harmonious way. At the moment, there is nothing. We can talk endlessly and approve a motion after another, as the able Vice-Chairman of the Implementation Committee mentioned, but you will find that you cannot implement any of them. If we do what is necessary, as the National Assembly, and establish the proposed committee, things will work very well. The other thing I would like to talk about are the gaps that exist, which we have noticed. We need to fill the gaps so that the legislative framework weaknesses that have been witnessed can be a thing of the past. I know we had the Commission on Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) headed by Mr. Charles Nyachae, but again, there were things which were left hanging. We should not be afraid of it. Our brothers and sisters in the Senate may want to do one or two things, but you cannot have your cake and eat it. We cannot trust the Senators in what they would want to do. What the previous Committee did is good for this country. Of course, we cannot run away from the fact that, as the National Assembly, we oversee everything right from State House at the national Government level to the county executives at the count government level, as well as the chiefs, assistant chiefs and village elders. So, we have a duty, as the National Assembly, to come up with that kind of a committee, which would fill the gaps that were left by the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC). It is our duty. We should not run away from it, or leave it hanging lest people start blaming us."
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