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    "id": 1139155,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1139155/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "It is because this is a House where we talk, debate, agree and disagree, but with dignity and respect that this House carries. Seeing what we saw in the “Lower House” as this Bill was being debated, it made some of us chill because there is no single Member that is legislating for himself, his party or region. We are legislating for the country and every Bill we pass must be one that makes this country a better place to do our politics and to do anything that we need to do within the law. As we start the process of this Bill, I appeal that one, we are not in a dash. There is no truncating of the process, so that due process, including public participation, is undertaken. Public participation must be real so that Kenyans can also ventilate as is required under the Constitution on what they think of the content of the Bill and that Members of this House will debate it freely, fairly and pass a law for posterity not for short-term fixes. As I finish, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I urge that we live to what we have always said. This is a House of reason; a House of senior members of our society that see any disagreement on matters of principle as a discourse in debate and not as an affront to each other."
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