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    "id": 1018871,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1018871/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "The history of the oldest Senate in the world was a House of compromise. In fact, there is phrase that is attributed to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson called Senatorial Saucer. Legislations come from the Lower House. When they go to a House of senior citizens and experienced people, such pieces of legislation are cooled and discussed. Eventually when those pieces of legislation are enacted, they are cool enough to be consumed by each and every citizen of that nation. I saw that moment this evening. I see no anger or frustration. I see joy among our colleagues, county leaderships and all the people Kenya. This moment has been coming, but with difficultly. We have been polarised, divided and we were fighting. The cause of that division has not been any of us. The cause of the division has been the small cake that we were obligated by law to share through a formula. Basic mathematics will tell you that if you do not change the numerator which is the cake and try to change the denominator which is the formula, I can assure you the results will be different. Madam Temporary Speaker, I said it and I want to say it again. I thank the President of this country. I also thank each and every one of us. In the acrimony and cacophony of the fight that we had amongst us, the nation and the President became desperate. With a whiff of hand, he promised Kshs50 billion. He invited the leadership and a few witnesses to see the commitment. It is because of the increase in the numerator that we are celebrating today. We tried it last year but county executives got together and shot it down. This year, we were put into a room and told to come up with a formula, the consequence or logic of which would reduce the allocations of certain counties. That was a ridiculous position and we really fought against one another; a war that was totally unnecessary. I am happy that out of that contradiction, war, noise and the suffering that arose out of it, today we have a larger cake that we are sharing. Both of us are victorious because without that kind of acrimony, I am sure we would have reached a meaningless compromise to share something too little too late and---"
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