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    "id": 961149,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to move:- THAT, pursuant to Standing Order Nos. 28 and 29, the Senate do adjourn until Tuesday, 10th September, 2019. This has been a Session that has had a lot of moments for this House and also constitutional moments for this country.We are going to recess while our counties have not received their equitable share of revenue for them to budget for their operations; and there is a level of uncertainty. If you remember the proceedings earlier in the House, I am glad that a Solomonic ruling has been made today by the Deputy Speaker, Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki. He has provided some options of what we can do as a House to address this. We must take a pragmatic approach as the Senate. We are leaders and leaders never hit dead ends. Leaders always make a way even where there seems to be no way. Even as we take that pragmatic approach, this will not mean that as a House, we are either shirking our responsibility or that we then develop a complex that allows us to be trampled upon by other institutions of Government, be it the National Assembly or the Executive. Our Constitution is clear on our sacred role and noble mandate that we have to protect the highlight of our Constitution, which is the greatest gift that Kenyans have received since Independence; the gift of devolution. We are the midwives. We are the ones who have the baby called ‘devolution’ in our hands. We can make the wrong move and strangle the baby or make sure that it is nurtured and comes out healthy. Madam Temporary Speaker, I implore upon my colleagues to come during this time of recess, if called upon. We must go out and explain to Kenyans that devolution is under threat. It is not under threat because of the amount of money that we are trying to get for the counties; it is because of the patronizing attitude of a centralist system of Government that was done away with by the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. That is the biggest threat to devolution. It is not whether counties get Kshs200 billion or a trillion. 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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