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    "id": 956779,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I will not even speak about the Division of Revenue Act (DORA); I think we should move on from DORA, the County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA), the Appropriation Bill to the integrity of this House, devolution and the constitution that we are supposed to be defending. This is because it is no longer about DORA. I know that at the end of this, once this debate is closed, we will sit back, give ourselves the excuse that counties need money; we will pass CARA and we will move on. Last year when some of us were new to this House, the same scenario unfolded. We were then told that because counties were starved of resources and services have been strangled, we must act and pass CARA. We were new and we did not want to go down in history as having gotten in the way of counties not having money. Later on, we realised that this year, it is same thing. Some of us actually walked out and tried to picket a little bit and said, ―Shame on them for duping us last year; shame on us this years for doing the same thing over and over again.‖ Mr Speaker, Sir, what are we saying as defenders of the Constitution? That every year, this drama is going to unfold and that this House will be the one giving the excuse of being magnanimous, which is not true? This is basically being on standby. In any situation, there is a victim, an aggressor, and the people who stand by. This House is getting a distinction as being a standby House, because we are not the victims. Mr Speaker, Sir, the rights of Kenyans to the services at the county level is not granted in by the state; it is our right. Nobody should tell us that they are giving us any of these things. Under no circumstance should this House be told that we are being done a favour."
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