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    "id": 1112821,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1112821/?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 say so because it is extremely important because this Constitution that we have today intended to reduce the powers of the Presidency and create independent institutions. As we speak, unless you are a visitor in Jerusalem, there is absolutely no independent institution in the country. What we used to call the fifth arm of Government, there is not a single independent commission. How did that happen? The Executive found a window on how to deal with independent institutions. They also found for this House and the Lower House. They found it in so far as the independent commissions are concerned. What has happened is that, and this credit to the grand coalition Government--- There are many things we can criticise the grand coalition Government for, but the 10 years of President Kibaki Government and particularly the five years which was a grand coalition; they gave us some kind of democracy that necessitated negotiation and checks and balances within the executive itself so that the nominees that came to office between 2008 and 2013 took various independent commissions whether it was the Nyachae led commission which was overseeing transition Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution. If you look at the appointees to the Human Rights Commission, from the time of Maina Kiai when the Kibaki administration came to office and then transitioned to people like Omar Hassan and the team, you leave the Kenya National Human Rights"
}