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    "id": 147580,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/147580/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj-Gen. Nkaisery",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 192,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Kasaine Ole Nkaissery",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are in the process of crafting a new Constitution. We are talking about devolution of power in the new Constitution. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are going to have regional assemblies, where regional development will be discussed. I expected that the Mover would have waited for that opportunity for Members of Parliament to go and address the issue in those regional assemblies. This House could make some provision in its budgetary commitments, so that hon. Members can be made to move around and know this country. I agree with my brother, Mr. Wamalwa, that peopled need to know this country. I would even recommend that in future, as a pre-university course, our children should undergo a military training course of two years, as is the case in other countries, so that they can know the country; they should know exactly where Kulamawe is. You do not have to come there as a Member of Parliament and want to be told where Kulamawe is. You can go there. You do not have to go there and sit, because Parliament is not a council of elders for it to go to Kajiado, sit under a tree and deliberate livestock issues. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, can you imagine taking Members of Parliament to Kajiado to sit under a tree, like a council of elders? I am talking about the financial implications of this proposal. We shall need to put into a bus 222 Members of Parliament and the officers who would support them. We have to reason. Reasoning is the most important thing. If you want to do proper planning, you must reason and have facts. You cannot just go and sit in Garsen just because somebody wants to eat crocodile meat, or because you want to see how one can slaughter a crocodile, or because somebody else wants to can go to Kisumu’s most beautiful place called Sio Port, or see how Migingo Island is. You can go there and see those places. You do not have to move Parliament to that place. With those remarks, I beg to oppose the Motion."
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