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    "id": 764579,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this Motion. In reaction to some of the discussions around equitable sharing of revenue and the conditional grants, I am very saddened by our focus. We are interpreting our oversight role as the Senate, as just a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of disbursements and not looking at sustainability of counties through own revenue generation. Counties cannot even survive for two months of transition between governments. As a Senate, we may choose to focus on SOP’s of disbursement schedules, but what we probably need to focus on is how sustainable the county governments are. Are they a department of the national Government thus everything comes to a standstill the day something does not flow from the national Government or are they a functioning government in their own right that could perhaps start generating some income that they can use even during this transitional period? While I support, I hope that we will not narrow our frame in terms of the oversight role of the Senate. We should look at what is being shared, disbursed and try to hold these county governments accountable to a sustainable model of governance that would be able to survive even if it is for some time. I support the Motion but let us look beyond this and make our oversight role more strategic."
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