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    "id": 843877,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/843877/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. I am also grateful to Sen. Dullo for presenting the Statement to the House. I will take over from where she left. In as much as we must affirm the constitutional role of the Senate, it is also upon us to go further and give life to those provisions by creating the proper framework for the actual work; whether on oversight or representation that a Senator plays within the county and their relationship with the county assembly. For instance, today, the Senators for Kisumu and Uasin Gishu counties will deal with their county assemblies differently from the Senators for Narok and Nairobi counties. It has been left to the personal relationship, demeanor or the personality of the specific Senator. Our oversight role, for instance, cannot be done retrospectively. That is why, as Sen. Dullo has said, governors are comfortable to say that the only people who are oversighting them on real time basis are Members of County Assembly (MCAs). This is because hon. Senators will have to wait for three, four or five years to get the Auditor- General’s reports on specific counties. For instance, the only Auditor-General’s reports that I have seen here are on former Gov. Kidero’s Government. Yet, Nairobians expect me to oversight Gov. Mike Mbuvi Sonko together with the rest of the governors. We, as the Senate, oversight in corporate as well as our specific counties."
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