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    "id": 884869,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Mulyungi",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Mutemi Mulyungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose this Bill. I want to join my colleagues in acknowledging that we must maintain a distinction between Members of the National Assembly and Members of the Senate. Article 96 of the Constitution is very clear. We should adhere to the rule of law. The Senate must oversee the counties. It appears like Senators have failed in their duties because since we came to this Parliament, I have never seen one governor being summoned by the Senate to answer audit queries and yet, there is a lot of theft in the counties. Now Senators want to rein in on the mandate of the Members of the National Assembly. We know very well that Members of Parliament are involved in KeRRA roads and, therefore, the Senators want to sneak in these amendments so that they can find space in the management of roads which are under Members of Parliament. The Bill on the Floor of the House is very clear on the distinction of which roads are managed by the county governments and which roads are managed by the national Government. Members of Parliament fall under the national Government. The roads which are managed by Members of Parliament are not many. In my constituency, I only have three roads. But there are more than 100 feeder roads which are managed by the county assembly. This Bill and the amendments that have been made by the Senate, if you read between the lines, what these amendments are trying to do is to make the county governments godfathers and super powers in the management of roads. Therefore, we cannot support this amendment because we would not be fully involved in the management of roads."
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