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    "id": 868356,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/868356/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this House shall perform the responsibility that it is required to do. As a second Chamber, it is meant to protect counties and ensure that Kenya remains a decentralized country with successful and working devolved governments. I would like to caution some governors, including a governor who comes from our region, who is talking about dissolving the county government and returning the functions back to Nairobi when they face challenges such as the nurses’ strike. As we sit in this House and negotiate on the best formula on how to share resources among our counties, that will not be an excuse for dissolving our counties. Our counties have made this nation a better place than it was. Lastly Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a House, we also have a responsibility to rise to the constitutional moment; if it presents itself - that we have to relook at the Constitution, whether as a suggestion or an actual referendum. I want to notify the people of Kenya that this House already has its draft on how to strengthen devolution and the Senate. I chaired a Committee and was deputized by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. We have a report which was passed on the Floor of this House. That Committee had eminent lawyers like Sen. Orengo, who is the Senate Minority Leader, people like Governor Kiraitu, among others."
}