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    "id": 108867,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/108867/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keter",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 169,
        "legal_name": "Charles Cheruiyot Keter",
        "slug": "charles-keter"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. What is the need of having a new Constitution or what was the need for us to have a new Constitution? It was meant to devolve power from the imperial presidency to other institutions. However, what I have seen in this draft which you want to pass today is that, we have even given more powers to the presidency. We have not done enough in devolution. The land issues which are here are socialist. We wanted to have a Constitution which will protect every Kenyan, namely, the minority and the majority. We wanted to have a Constitution for all Kenyans. We wanted to have listened to the views of Kenyans. When we were in Bomas, the Commissioners went round the country collecting views and everybody said that they wanted to elect a President. We want to devolve the powers of the President. We also wanted to devolve the resources. Today we have lumped everything together. Therefore, it is very hard for me to say that we have done a"
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