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    "id": 886271,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/886271/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "229 of the Constitution requires us to consider those reports within three months of tabling. Some of these reports were tabled last week and we only have three months according to the Constitution. If we go beyond that, it will be unconstitutional. We cannot be the same people holding governors to account for acting unconstitutionally and with disregard to the rule law yet we are the same people doing the same thing. The Senate must take a different view as far as oversight is concerned but we must build the capacity of our county assemblies. I do hope that we will have this conversation when we go to Kisumu County for the Legislative Summit. It is good that this Bill has made progress. If we are to go to Kisumu without this Bill, there would be trouble in paradise just the same way there was trouble in paradise last time. I hope the conversation about car grants, mortgages and pensions will be less and that we will have more conversation on how to improve and entrench our oversight, legislative, budgeting and planning roles as legislatures. I support, but I do hope that there could be a few amendments that can be put in place to enrich this Bill."
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