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    "id": 986961,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/986961/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Esther Passaris",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "Right now, Nairobi is at a standstill. We are not seeing leadership, but a tug of war. I believe that when the governor was transferring these functions, he had reached the point where he realised he needed help. What better place for him to go than to the Executive? The Executive said it was fine with this and took over those functions. He remained the governor, but the functions were transferred. Now, Nairobi is being held to ransom. To be honest the office is bigger than the individual. An individual cannot hold this county to ransom. He may be elected by the majority and the people who elected him witnessed as he handed over the functions to the Executive. Many countries in the world the Executive runs major cities, for instance, Paris. Right now, we have the office of Maj-Gen. Badi and the county assembly. The county assembly was not considered when the governor transferred the various functions to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services through the Executive. I believe what the Senate is trying to do is wrong. We should allow what has already happened to take shape so that Nairobi can start seeing some leadership. As Nairobi MPs, we feel we have been left out in the running of Nairobi. This is because we cannot answer questions raised by various constituents as to why somethings are not happening. We have no answers and that is why we need to ensure sanity in the leadership of Nairobi. Therefore, I oppose the Senate amendments because Nairobi Metropolitan Services should have money to perform functions which the governor himself gave to the Executive."
}