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    "id": 1068924,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1068924/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important historic Bill in our country. The constitution-making process is the most important thing in any country. We made the 2010 Constitution, but there are issues that I felt were never covered. One of them is constituencies. Therefore, this Bill intends to mitigate some of the things that were not right. Even now there are things that will not be right after this Bill is passed and we expect them to be handled later. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I rise to support this Bill, I must also point out some of the things that will still need Kenyans and us to bear in mind as we move forward. The basis of democracy is one man, one vote. Any country that wishes to have justice to its populace must achieve that. In the 2010 Constitution, I went to court over the same matter, but it has never been resolved to this day. I went to court because I felt Nyeri County was not treated fairly and it deserved a constituency. The area that made me go to court was Kieni. Even now it is not getting an additional constituency in this amendment Bill. Nevertheless, it has been explained, but I sincerely hope as we move forward, IEBC will look into this matter of constituencies so that Kieni and Mathira constituencies benefits. I ended up in court. The first time the Judge ruled that we were right that the constituencies had not been done correctly, that is the 2010 constituencies. To this day this remains on record. Mr. Speaker, Sir, devolution is a good idea. Devolution is not a new idea in this country. It was there in the earlier days. Those of us who may have been there in the 1960s and early 1970s, we recall in their primary schooldays, there was a lorry written “District Education Board.” It used to distribute textbooks, exercise books and other writing materials; that was devolution by then. This is the idea that we have been trying to see whether we can reintroduce it."
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