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    "id": 1166097,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1166097/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to second this Bill. I will pick up from where Sen. Murkomen has started from. An election is an expression of the sovereignty of the people. The people of Kenya are the ones who ultimately determine who becomes their leader, especially in representative positions. We need to differentiate that. A representative position is like that of an MCA representing his people in a ward. The people in that ward in Suba or Mbita feel that Sen. M. Kajwang’ is the one to represent them. He is an expression of their aspirations, has been with them in the community and they decide to choose him. It would be wrong to put an undue barrier to that. Representative positions are like those of Members of Parliament (MPs) of the National Assembly or even the Senate, when you stretch the meaning because we represent in a corporate sense of it."
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