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    "id": 1028838,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1028838/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, in the year 1942, Winston Churchill made a speech in the House of Commons and said: “I have not become the king’s first Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire”. At that time, he believed the British Empire where the sun never set will never be liquidated, but subsequently, it was liquidated. Happily, for him, the jewel on the crown which was India became independent after he had ceased to be Prime Minister. Later on, in the 1950s, again, he became the Prime Minister. Madam Deputy Speaker, as a Senator and the reason I offered my services in this case is that I believe that the Senate must continue to play its constitutional role. That role must not be emasculated and that without the Senate, Parliamentary systems as designed by the Constitution will come to naught. Any attempt to dissolve this Senate or to emasculate its authority is undermining the authority of the Constitution of Kenya as by law established. I truly believe that so long as we continue to have Speakers who are determined as Hon. Lusaka demonstrated and Article 110(3) is part of the Constitution, the role of this Senate will continue to be the same. This is because the power and the authority to determine whether the Bills can come to this Senate has not been taken away and is not likely to be taken away. The only thing that I want to say in conclusion and I am glad Sen. Wako is here, sometimes in historical moments until we watch out very well, we can enter - as I have said before this House - in lamentations. There was time when we were trying to create a new constitutional order or how to create the position of Prime Minister, so that we could have the Grand Coalition. There was a lot of chest-stamping, but I am glad that when the two principals asked Sen. Wako and I to work on a draft of the new constitutional Bill that was going to make it possible to have a Grand Coalition Government, we did it knowing that the country was in a position where the country did not want any less. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to promise this Senate that I have actually itemized three issues in this draft Bill that we must look at very carefully. I think women have been very strategic. On everything to do with women in meeting the gender balance, they have played their role so well that nobody wants to touch that anymore. I am sure that it will continue to be so because they have been very strategic. Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura, I want to congratulate you because you have done some strategic thinking. You laid out a strategy on the question of those living with disability. That is another question which has been resolved and nothing will change it."
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