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    "id": 825972,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "institutions in the counties are properly empowered to oversight the expenditure of county governments at all levels. If you look at the national Government, there is nobody over-regulating the national Government. The county governments are a Government like the national Government. Why do we allow the county government to be over-regulated with all manner of clogs, road blocks and ceilings yet they are a government? We have two Governments according to Article 6 of the Constitution, that is the national Government and the county governments. They are both independent and inter-dependent. However, we have a situation where one level of Government is lording it over the other on a daily basis. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Chairman of the Committee must, in conjunction with the Senate Majority Leader, tell this House why the Senate Oversight Fund is not forthcoming. We cannot, on a daily basis, be called a House that oversights counties and the defenders of devolution yet we are not able to go to our counties and hold a meeting to see what is going on. It is a contradiction. Therefore, the Senate Majority Leader must unlock this jinx. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I was driving here, I heard of the Machakos delegation which has visited the Senate. Allow me to welcome them and also put on record that my County of Bungoma and my party in particular, recorded the highest number of elected women in the whole of Kenya."
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