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    "id": 1063765,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1063765/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "I have read Article 1 to the last Article and the Schedule and these provisions are not prohibited. I would like to tell Sen. Orengo and all Senators who are here that Elgeyo- Marakwet County and Rift Valley Region where I come from losses nothing if this Bill passes as it is. However, I am not the Senator of only one region. We must look at the country as a whole. I come from a region which has received a fair share of extra constituencies and we are happy with that. However, I am still unhappy with the Bill because I am a Senator of Kenya. I believe that all of us should be well. No one should look at me and my political disposition or where I come from and think that there are certain things that we will lose. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was in the ‘yes’ campaign in the 2010 Constitution-making. I worked with Sen. Orengo and we passed the Constitution. However, the people who benefited most when the Constitution was passed, including the Deputy President, were in the ‘no’ campaign. Being in the ‘no’ campaign and defending basic issues that are in this Constitution does not mean that that you will be at a loss. So, if people force us to pass this Constitution, I go on record as one of the citizens of this Republic to say these amendments in the BBI report are clawing back the gains we achieved with the Constitution of Kenya 2010 in terms of the independence of the Judiciary, principles of separation of powers and bringing matters related to the Executive to Parliament so that we will have one constituency that will have a Minister while another that does not. This will create inequality. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we really wanted to change the structure of Government, why did we not go straight to the parliamentary system of Government? How will we seat the amendments we brought here for certain few MPs to become Cabinet Ministers---"
}