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    "id": 890820,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I support the work that has been done by the Senate Committee on Finance and Budget on this very important issue, because it was beginning to threaten our work, as legislators. This is because, many-a-times, when we went to public functions, one of the questions that I remember being asked was: “What informs some of these decisions that you people make in Nairobi and want to force down our throats, as residents of a particular county?” Mr. Speaker, Sir, many of the residents that we represent in this House do not have the luxury or the latitude to understand and know that the various government institutions operate independently, but also interdependently with each other. Therefore, when the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) goes to give a directive, such as the one they have given on this issue of the county Speakers’ residence and county headquarters---. When many of the people we represent find us in public they usually tell us: “The Members of County Assembly (MCAs) are telling us that you have instructed them from Nairobi to put up a county assembly building worth Kshs400 or Kshs500 million.” While they are speaking, many of the people who share these sentiments with us perhaps have only one meal per day or they have come to the meeting barefooted."
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