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    "id": 1143550,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1143550/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Masinga, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Mbithi Mwalyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to air my views on the history of Kenya’s Parliament. History is very important because it tells us how we have developed from time immemorial up to now. It informs future generations of where we have come from. The history of Kenya’s Parliament should be written so that people who will come to this Parliament in future – in 10 to 20 years – will read and know when Parliament started, who were the Speakers, the clerks and the Members of Parliament. They will know how the debates in Parliament were conducted. I am sure that the proposed nine-Member Committee that will be appointed will put all these together. It will have a lot of work to do. We allowed the old Members of Parliament to go without documenting them. Therefore, we will not be able to gather some of the things because we will not have the history of some old MPs who have passed on. We need to develop history books and put them in the libraries for future legislators to read and know, for example, how much MPs were earning. I understand Members of Parliament used to earn between Ksh35,000 and Ksh70,000. It is good history to document. With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support."
}