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    "id": 1514209,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The institution of NG-CDF and the framers of that law have freed Parliament from the yoke of the Presidency and marginalisation by members of the Executive. Before we enacted NG-CDF, a Member of Parliament was a pauper - the most disadvantaged. He was not respected and was not part of the national development agenda. Luckily, the framers of the current Constitution equated representation to our sovereignty. Those individuals who put every effort to rubbish the role of a Member of Parliament are indirectly sabotaging our Constitution. I want to tell my colleagues who are new that the assumption that is out there, through the agents of devolution, is as if there is federalism. What we have is an economic devolution which means taking resources to the grassroots, but this has been abused."
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