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    "id": 799192,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to second the Motion to adjourn the Senate for a week to enable Senators attend the Legislative Summit. I need not belabour the reasons to do so. There are three fundamental issues that will come into play at the Legislative Summit. First, we are adjourning at a time when there is a Bill in the Senate on the Ward Equalisation Fund. A report has been tabled. It is important that this Senate, together with the Committee on Finance and Budget discuss in detail this issue so that by the time we are deliberating and voting on the Bill, the clamour for this fund is well understood from that perspective. We will inform them on the interactions we have had with the various Government agencies regarding the shortfalls and others about this. We will also try and advice, in advance, of what we think as a Senate, is a correct way of ensuring that there is true devolution of resources. Secondly, we have now passed what is called the Kenya Devolution Support Programme (KDSP) which seeks to support county Governments on capacity building. This KDSP is supposed to capacitate executives only. It would be a good opportunity to listen to the county assemblies to know whether they have managed to interact with the county governments in terms of capacity building. This morning, during the public hearing on Disaster Management Bill, Governor Amason Kingi informed the Senate committee that although they had passed their own Disaster Management Act, which requires that there is coordination in the county, there has been no coordination to the extent that when some of the county commissioners are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
}