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    "id": 959083,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1885,
        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
        "slug": "didmus-wekesa-barasa-mutua"
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    "content": "Division of Revenue Bill that is against the Constitution. When this country is not faced with any particular crisis or if the services continue and the county governments are able to access some funds, then the engagement will be much more fruitful and deeper. At times because of staring at a crisis, we may even not have enough time to engage and agree on the amount of money that county governments should share. This Bill is going to make it possible that going forward into the future, wherever there would be some kind of standoff, then there should be no crisis. The two Houses would be able to sit down and have enough time to interrogate the issues that will be before them and come up with something acceptable that is going to save this country. Even as I support this Bill, I want to be very clear that the Senate should take this Bill very seriously. They should read it and understand it so that it does not take much time. From where I sit, I think even their role is just very limited to just passing it because it is the responsibility of this House to pass such kind of laws. They should not even sit on these Bills because at times this House has approved very good laws that will assist the people of this country but the Senate sits on those laws for a very long time. I just want to urge them that if they have any reservations about this law and because the Constitution is clear that they participate in law-making, we are open to Senators from our counties to come to us if they have any reservations. We can bring it through amendments because this is specifically the role of National Assembly. With these very few remarks, I support."
}