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    "id": 775065,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/775065/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the people of Makueni County and the Senate, I welcome the Members of West Pokot County Assembly. I have three things to say. First, your governor sat with us in the Committee on Finance and Budget. In that Committee we ensured all assemblies have autonomy; managing their own accounts. Previously, the accounts were signed by the executive. Your Governor, Prof. Lonyangapuo, was responsible for ensuring that you have independence. Secondly, Gov. (Prof.) Longangapuo was also responsible for ensuring that you do not overspend by participating in the legislation on the recurrent expense; the ceilings. We are, therefore, asking you to help the good professor - your governor - to ensure that the things he did while he was here are achieved. Do not overspend. Make sure that you also oversight him well because he did a lot of things to ensure that counties that had gone on a spending spree were put in check. Mr. Speaker, Sir, lastly, allow me to say that we count on the assemblies, everywhere in the country, to ensure that devolution succeeds. They have a mandate and now that they are here, I ask them to pick all the good habits that they find in the Senate to ensure that West Pokot County, which is one of the counties that we have protected in terms of marginalization, is amongst the top five counties in terms of good spending and managing money well. We welcome you again and await your views on the recurrent expenditures on West Pokot County. We are prepared to give you more funds not to go to Israel, but to make sure that you oversight the county government of West Pokot. I thank you."
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