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    "id": 1066073,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "I know there is a lot of pain across on the issue of distribution of the new constituencies. I will go on record that the people of Homa Bay County and I are not happy because from the submissions that were made to the Joint Committee, Homa Bay County deserved at least two constituencies. However, we need to look at the bigger picture. Is it the constituencies or the strengthening of devolution that should be the conversation at this point? Being in the Senate, I will spend more time to see how this Bill will strengthen and entrench devolution because that was the conversation at Independence as Lancaster House. It was about federalism or Majimbo. It was about resisting the munition of big tribes and communities. Even the conversation today about constituencies has the same undertones. We hear some regions are getting more constituencies than others. We are still at the point we were at Independence, where we are fighting against domination by the so-called big tribes or communities. The solution is devolution. Give people the power to make decisions on matters affecting them. Let us have political and fiscal decentralization. Let us allow our assemblies the power to make laws on matters that affect them. This draft Bill proposes just that."
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