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    "id": 111447,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/111447/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Kilimo",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Co-operatives Development and Marketing",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Linah Jebii Kilimo",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the coming into force of the new Constitution. However, I have a few amendments to raise. I would like to put something straight. I heard some previous speakers talk against regionalization. It is negative to think that when people ask for regions, it is because they want to balkanize this country. They have given a negative connotation to regional governments. I would like to support the view that we have 25 regions in this country. I am not supporting these regions for negative reasons as people perceive them. Let us forget the past because it is all behind us. We, as Members from the marginalized areas in this country, feel that we need to have a structure that will draw up proposals within the reach of the people living in that area and reach out to investors to invest in this region. It is for economic purposes that we are asking for regions and not for political reasons, as people might think. However, the leader is always a politician. I want to give an example of the North Rift where you have the Turkanas. As people come from Turkana, when they reach Eldoret, they think they have reached Kenya. They do not imagine that they are part of this country. When they come from"
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