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    "id": 110972,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/110972/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Balala",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Tourism",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Najib Mohamed Balala",
        "slug": "najib-balala"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to appreciate you for giving me this time to contribute to the constitutional debate. I rise to speak in this historic debate of replacing the current Constitution with a new one. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I can compare the current Constitution with what is being proposed, definitely, I would suggest that the proposed Constitution is much better than the current Constitution. We are the House now and it is an organ of review. I think I will take the opportunity also to propose some amendments. I will support the proposed Constitution with some amendments to make it even better. I believe that my contribution is to improve the new Constitution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have all been crying about marginalization. We are talking about not being able to give services to our people. The purpose of this Constitution is to address marginalization and resource allocation to the grassroots. We have centralized the system and it has actually suffocated most of the areas where the bulk of the population of Kenya lives. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important for us to have a philosophy of delivering the Government to the people and not people to the Government. It is important for us to look at that thing holistically, so that we empower our people both economically and politically. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, most of our population is in the rural areas. We have a lot of resources, both material and human. It is unfortunate that we have not utilized or tapped what the country has. We have centralized everything in Nairobi and we have forgotten the resources that are in the countryside. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about the form of Government that devolves to the people. In the 1960s, it was called Majimboism . I do not know what happened then because I was born, but Majimboism was so bad and demonized until"
}