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    "id": 861327,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "The fact that six years into devolution, we, as a House, have not considered making such laws, speaks a lot about how us. Sometimes we miss our priorities because we do not consider matters that are extremely important to our county governments. Devolution offered Kenyans an opportunity to self-governance. If you listened keenly to Kenyans in the run up to the 2010 Referendum, they felt that they were not getting proper representation and services from the centre. It was, therefore, important that we go the devolved way. This was to ensure that each and every person in our society, in their own small way, manage their affairs in a neat and better way than what was being offered previously. Therefore, we ushered in devolution into our country that came with many challenges. This Bill proposes something important which I would not wish to repeat the words of Sen. Khaniri. I wish to point out, perhaps, one or two things that I feel are extremely important in this Bill. I call upon my colleagues to support it. Earlier on this year, we have witnessed a number of counties that organized the graduation ceremonies of what we would be considered as enforcement officers. For example, we saw 200 enforcement officers being commissioned in Bomet, Nandi, among other counties. Currently, there is a stand-off because the county government enlisted 780 young men and women and they trained them in a particular village polytechnic and they wanted to employ them as law enforcement officers. However, they do not have the legal basis for doing it. The legislative framework has not been availed up to this particular time. The County Public Service Board (CPSB) advised that despite the fact that they spent significant amounts of county resources in training them---"
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