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    "id": 812400,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/812400/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in welcoming the MCAs of Busia and Trans Nzoia. Under our Constitution, county assemblies play a very important role in ensuring that there is accountability. It is good to have our colleagues from the two county assemblies on this day when we are celebrating the African Day Against Corruption.I challenge our MCAs to ensure that they play their role in ensuring that the resources that we, as Senators, send to counties are used to transform the lives of our people and not to end up in the pockets of a few people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Constitution of Kenya 2010 gives a lot of power to our MCAs, including the power to summon witnesses and also ensure that under Article 196, there is full public participation in our counties. I want to inform our colleagues, MCAs, that they have the powers they need under the Constitution and they should go back motivated that they can work to ensure there is accountability and good governance in the counties of Busia and Trans Nzoia."
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