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    "id": 986973,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I think it is a second week in a row that this House is going on record in terms of passing a law or legislation and also extending a very serious caution. Last week, this House extended a very serious caution on the VAT amendment. We passed it and the caution was there. We did with a caveat and it passed. This time round, our Leader of the Minority Party is also indicating to us very clearly that the law has been followed. The Senate has really followed in terms of what was supposed to happen, but I think some of the Members are discussing the caution that he was placing. There is a caution that as we pass this as Parliament, the Executive needs to know that there is likely to be a problem. That problem is, for example, a governor who had agreed may turn against what he had agree on. That is the caution that Hon. Mbadi is trying to bring around. Therefore, for purposes of passing this legislation, we are in order. In my view, we need to support what the Senate has brought but we need to be live to two things. Number one is exactly what Hon. Lessonet is bringing that time will come that, out of the Kshs361 billion that we are taking to the counties, a portion will go to Nairobi. If it will go to Nairobi, what portion of the functions that have been removed from Nairobi will be taken to that other body that is supposed to perform the functions of Nairobi? I think that is at another stage. It is not at this stage. I want to believe that if you guide the House properly, we need to pass this such that we allow the Senate to go on with this and we support what has been brought in. Thank you."
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