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    "id": 966752,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "give their views to the BBI Taskforce. They fully support devolution, and they want it to work. However, the agencies that fight corruption in these countries should be careful as they investigate and prosecute. Let them not rush to the dailies to publish stories and put it in the media before having a concrete case. We agree that our counties have a problem with issues of corruption. However, that is not a justification to use it as blackmail or with the aim of using it for political gain or the weaponisiation of corruption. I agree that those are some of the challenges. Even when the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) started in 2003, it faced a lot of challenges. However, as we speak, it is one of the celebrated successes today. Why do we not give devolution the benefit of the doubt? In future, we would want 50 per cent of the latest audited accounts channeled to mashinani . This is where we need roads, bursaries and medicine for our people. The youth should also ask and be given employment opportunities, and all other things. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for that ruling. I also hope to drink from that fountain of legal wisdom that you have espoused today in the afternoon. I hope that it will assist us in making future decisions and reenergize us, as protectors of devolution. This will ensure that even as we preside over the second generation of devolution, by the time it comes to an end, everybody will be happy. That way, we will ensure that the country moves forward for the benefit of all of us. I hope that the “Lower House” will be reading some parts of this ruling so that they can be assisted on how they also make their decisions and on how they reason. Even the Speaker of the “Lower House” and the leadership should be given opportunity so that they do not just say that the Senate is not needed, or what-have-you. However, they have seen that we have a resounding support from devolution."
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