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    "id": 1161007,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1161007/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "You will find that even in advanced democracies like America, the only time you allow Senators to vote with their conscience is when they are voting to defend the Constitution of America, or where they are voting to defend a matter that affects a State in America. Therefore, on this one, we will vote to defend the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. Finally, as I conclude, if we had got good support from the person who chairs the Intergovernmental Budget economic Council (IBEC), my good friend our Deputy President William Ruto, we would not be where we are. The Council of Governors (CoG) had proposed an allocation of Kshs751 billion to be given to counties. However, when this matter was presented to IBEC, the chairperson reduced that amount from Kshs751 billion to Kshs370 billion and disregarded the proposal by the CoG that wanted to allocate Kshs751 billion. If the Deputy President truly believes in the Bottom-Up Economic model this is where he should have begun. We sent a proposal to a body that is chaired by our Deputy President and we expected him to stand with the people who live in counties and support that proposal of signing Kshs751 billion, but he vetoed that proposal and instead said only---"
}