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    "id": 1227547,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1227547/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise, pursuant to Standing Order No. 57(2) to make a Statement on the occasion of the ten-year anniversary of the Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I expected Senators to be concentrating because they would have applauded that this House has lived to see its 10th birthday, the Second Session of the Senate. Given the kind of challenges that we have had over the years, both from within and without, it is not by chance or guarantee that this House would live to see this day. On March 28th, 2013, the Senate of Kenya held an inaugural Sitting, technically marking the Second Senate - after the 1st Senate under the Independence Constitution was disbanded in 1967 - and the First Senate under the 2010 Constitution. The Second Senate under the leadership of Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ekwee Ethuro, EGH, MP, marked one of the most significant milestones in the country's constitutional history. The coming into being of the Senate heralded a new dawn for our legislature, hitherto unicameral, and was now comprising the National Assembly and the Senate. The term of the Second Senate ran from 28th March, 2013 to 15th June, 2017. Needless to say, the Senate was sailing in unchartered waters. None of the political leadership and Senators had a clear idea of what their tasks entailed. They had to “learn how to swim by swimming”. It was trial and error at first. However, the Speaker and his Leadership team, guided by unity of purpose and the will to actualize devolution, initiated work systems and spearheaded a series of retreats, workshops and seminars that rapidly crafted the framework of transacting and administering the Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, to entrench its place, the Senate began its mandate by fighting for its space, and its place in the new organization of Government, including its"
}