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    "id": 955871,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "You know, Prof. Makau Mutua has ashamed himself. He has a small cottage called Kitui Villa. It has eight rooms only. He tweeted last night that the fruits of devolution have come to Kitui. I was about to tell him: “Can you declare your interests, my friend? You are a recipient of that fruit and not the people of Kitui”. So, let us finish this Bill. We cannot change the commencement date because we have to have two-thirds of all Members of the National Assembly. However, the country must know that this House wants the counties to get money. The Senate does not want the counties to get money. Article 96 gives the Senate the duty to protect the counties. You cannot be a father in a house, charged with the responsibility of protecting your children, and you poison and kill them on the other side. They are the ones who are killing devolution. Kenyans must know that. The President said: “Let me sign the County Allocation of Revenue Bill before I leave tonight for the United Nations General Assembly”. The President yesterday told the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, in our presence, that he must disburse Kshs50 billion before Friday. With this kind of a commencement date, the Cabinet Secretary will wait until the Act is published after 14 days. Who is killing devolution between the National Assembly and the presidency? It is the Senate. Hon. Millie, Hon. Sophia and many people who were there know where power was when the Constitution was crafted. Power was in this House. Some of us decided to come to this House. They were cheated by elders who were former ministers like Hon. Kiraitu Murungi, Mutula Kilonzo, Moses Wetangula and James Orengo. These are tired people who wanted to rest in that House."
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