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    "id": 1491051,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "afford to go to the next election with this mess as has always been. Many of our county assemblies, and 21 of them, do not have PWDs, but there is an equal number also that do not have youth representation. There is an equal number also that do not have representation of the marginalized groups. That was not our constitutional design. I believe that it will be unfair of us as a House to have come back for the third time, or for the first time like Sen. Crystal. People like Moses Kajwang’ cannot say anything about this particular law because we have been here. We know this problem so well, and we must be proud and buy Sen. Crystal Asige a drink of her favourite choice at the most expensive restaurant in Nairobi, upon the passage of this Bill, because she has sorted a problem that we have not been able to do so, the last two terms of the Senate, yet it is extremely important for county assemblies to be properly constituted. Otherwise, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we run the risk of our courts of law, very soon, on one day, declaring them unconstitutionally constituted, for lack of proper representation as per the dictates of Article 177. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a fairly straightforward matter. I do not intend to be long at it, but appreciate the industry of Sen. Crystal Asige and the rest of the people who will take time to speak to this particular matter, so that we can be quickly done with it, send it to the National Assembly, and have it signed into law, so that as we go into the next election in 2027, we know full well that our county assemblies, are properly constituted as expected of our Constitution. With those remarks, I beg to second."
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