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    "id": 989159,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni (",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I heard what the Leader of the Minority Party said. That is crucial. We have been exposed more than before during this period of Covid-19. Parliament has been muted. Saying “No” to something does not make one become a bad person. It gives hope to Kenyans. The 12th Parliament is likely to go down in history as one of the Parliaments that were completely dead on issues of oversight. We are just here to rubber-stamp. Of course, the person who takes the credit is the Leader of the Majority Party, who has mustered the trade. Other than the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party, we are just here like bus conductors. We are just following what is being done and yet, we need to behave like a parliament. Parliamentary oversight is dead in Kenya. We just come here and rubber-stamp decisions that have been made elsewhere. The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury has already published a Bill seeking to take away some money that has been allocated to the county governments. That money can only be re-allocated through an amendment to the County Allocation of Revenue Bill 2020. First, that Bill is unconstitutional. We are likely to come here and purport to pass unconstitutional things. We should say it is wrong from the beginning. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have given the National Government Kshs40 billion for intervention on Covid-19. However, if what we are seeing happening at the county level is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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