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    "id": 957146,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Outa",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 133,
        "legal_name": "Fredrick Otieno Outa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would to take this opportunity to thank the people of Kitui and their leaders, led by our host Sen. Wambua for your hospitality. We have not been disappointed since we came here on Sunday. I want you to know that. I also rise to support this Bill, but with reservations. There is a lot of lamentation in this House. We, Senators, who are given the mandate to protect the counties have turned to be wimps when the county is looking at us to stand up and provide the funding for devolved government. However, here we are. Every now and then we are pushed to the wall, and we are ready to accept any heat from the National Assembly. Today, we are here lamenting, and yet there is nothing we are doing. I thought that today the House would stand up and tell the Executive that we are not going to be used as wimps or a House that does not have powers or teeth to bite by passing a Bill which has a lot of illegalities. If we really want to be counted in the future as a Senate which is given the mandate by the same Constitution, we should not be crying fault to the National Assembly. Every now and then we say that the National Assembly has powers and when they push bills to us, we somehow melt. Like my senior says, we now want to blame them over our own mandate that we have been asked to protect. I thought this House will stand and do what we call tit for tat today. We should have refused the Bill and sent it back to the Executive to tell the world that we are in charge and the Constitution has given power to protect the counties. If you look at some of our counties, for example, in Kisumu County---"
}