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    "id": 980784,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join you and our brother, Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri from Kisii County in welcoming the delegation of our colleagues from the County Assembly of Kisii. Kisii is very dear to me because I worked there in my early life as a magistrate. Secondly, the able deputy leader of my party, hon. Momoima Onyonka, is from Kisii. We have visited Kisii many times and we know the MCAs whose names you have read, as we have been in public meetings together. I welcome them to the Senate to learn what they can but to know that our role and their role in oversight are complementary. They practise and deal with primary oversight. I want to encourage them that in their oversight work, being the first encounter on the management of the county, embrace a doctrine called budget tracking; that once a budget is passed, you engage fully in periodic checks to see that the money you have budgeted for and approved in appropriation is put to good use. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we speak today, one of the biggest threats to devolution in Kenya is governors because of lack of proper accountability and respect for public resources. I am not singling out any governor but many of them are unaccountable. I want to encourage the MCAs that devolution is the biggest dream that the people of Kenya have ever realised through the Constitution of Kenya 2010. Please do help them to enjoy the fruits and content of that dream. Thank you."
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