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    "id": 1028868,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Assembly will mean a money Bill because that is already a position that requires to be filled and remuneration. Now we have to make use of this ruling and ensure that all those legislations, over 20 of them, which by-passed this House, have to come back and go through the legislative process right from publication all through. If it will require mediation, so be it, so that we can now sit down and come up with a legislation, which is in the interest of the citizens of this country but not legislation that is passed mysteriously because somebody is trying to create some mischief somewhere. Madam Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I will urge that we keep on making sure that we are vigilant, especially in this time of Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). We should make use of this because my understanding is that whenever there is a review of a constitution or any law, it is to improve the existing institutions to strengthen them and not to weaken them as we are seeing now. Many issues have been raised, and I thank my colleagues in the Pastoralists Parliamentary Group. The points that they came up with are the minimum that have to be addressed for us to get that improvement and enhancement of our rights in this country, so that issues which we have been considering as marginalization all this time are sorted out and not aggravated further. Things like the Equalization Fund, a fund which has a sunset close of 20 years already, ten years into its period, its life has not been implemented. We need to make sure that those constitutional provisions actually attain the impact that Kenyans had in mind. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker."
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