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    "id": 992875,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I submit, as I support, that we should work to attain that endeavour. This is not ad hominem, personal or for the sake of the occupant of the seat. If you look at, for example, the role of the Senate in terms of oversight to counties, if we did not have this Senate, counties have very limited capacity to oversight a governor who controls billions of shillings. They have many novel and virgin areas that we can conquer in terms of how to make legislation with regards to county governments. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, at the same time, we must also be aware that we should not be balkanized and end up with two Houses; that is one for the national Government and one for county governments. Our quest for the Senate to occupy its rightful role is predicated upon the fact that we can have veto powers of legislation, but we retain our capacity to oversight the two tiers of Government. This is especially with the county governments with regard to national policy and generating laws that strengthen transparency and accountability on the part of county governments."
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