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    "id": 916657,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to make my remarks on this matter. It is true that if you want to kill a dog, you give it a bad name. If you want to give devolution and counties a bad name, you deny them finances, so that they default in their commitments and fail to perform services to ensure disaffection and dissatisfaction. There is a strategy by unknown characters being fronted by the National Assembly to make sure that counties are dysfunctional. When we talk with our colleagues in the National Assembly, they say that corruption is prevalent in the counties. That is not true. Corruption is more prevalent at the national level yet we continue allocating resources to the national Government. Corruption can be dealt with differently without necessarily depriving institutions of resources to execute their mandate. So, that is an argument that does not hold water. I believe all colleagues here consider themselves representatives or agents who exercise delegated sovereignty from the people pursuant to Article 1 of our Constitution because we are all MPs. If you look at the definition of “Parliament” it captures clearly that it is made of the Senate and the National Assembly. The sovereignty given to each and every one of us here is given to Parliament. We cannot be here as a Senate and allow that sovereignty to slip away and be exercised by an institution that does not represent Parliament in entirety. This is a matter that we should take up. We should ensure that the Constitution is protected by taking this matter to wherever it must be taken to. Since I believe we will go to court sooner than later because I have been participating in some meetings, I would like to conclude by asking all of us to extract the proceedings that took place today in the National Assembly. Those proceedings are evidence of the venom, vitriol and contempt with which we are being treated as MPs by Members of the National Assembly. If we get a good adjudicator in this matter, the 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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