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    "id": 893939,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/893939/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. Let me start by thanking our dear brother and colleague. He has been given very many names, but I thank him for coming up with this timely Bill. It is timely because we have been talking about our oversight fund and we have been asking ourselves questions about what oversight is. I congratulate him for being extremely active and working on this with a lot of detail. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will be brief and only say a bit about public participation. Public participation has been totally abused. We have had opportunities to attend public participation forums. I have attended some myself where a CEC member or Ward Administrator is addressing the public on budget issues. When you sit there and listen, there is no public participation because nobody is actually participating. There is a lot of dictation; “This is what it is; that is in the budget.” I was shocked when I heard one administrator say: “If you do not want the money, it will go back.” In fact, I called him aside and asked him: “Did you hear what you said yourself?” Madam Temporary Speaker, public participation has been totally abused. I like the way Sen. Olekina has articulated and broken it down to what we must do during The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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