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    "id": 1063730,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1063730/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13183,
        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Memoranda of Objects and reasons of the Bill, and I am reading from the Report in Index II, the promoters of the Bill, that is the Building Bridges Initiative indicated that the Bill seeks to address certain issues such as: Address issues arising from the implementation of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, specifically the need to resolve the issues of divisive elections, promote gender equity in governance, strengthen the structure of devolution, increase resource allocation to counties and broaden mechanisms for all the people of Kenya to benefit. That is what we are calling shared prosperity. There is also to harmonize certain roles and functions of the bicameral legislature, that is the Senate and the National Assembly. My question is: Has the Bill really harmonized the roles and functions of the bicameral legislature? I do not see that having been achieved. It is only that the courts have helped us look like we are working in harmony by the Speakers of the National Assembly and the Senate agreeing. However, this is after certain Bills were threatened to be thrown away. That is when they agreed to work with us. So, I do not see how this Bill has helped us harmonise our relationship with our young brothers and sisters in the other House. I do not want to call them “small House”, but they are just younger than we are."
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