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    "id": 281539,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/281539/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": " Just briefly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to emphasize the fact that in the heart of this Constitution is devolution. In the heart of devolution is the money to run that devolved Government. These two Bills deal exactly with that. One provides for the devolution and another provides for how we will apply finances to manage devolved units. If for some reason, and the reason here is if we stall where we are now and we do not extend time, the consequences will be that the Constitution, in respect to devolution will not be implemented and we will not have devolved units. In fact, we may not even elect Governors or even Senators because there will be no work for them when there is no devolvement by the Government. There will also be no finances. So, the consequences of not extending time will be that we would have failed as a country to implement the same Constitution which we passed with a lot of hard work because this is what we have been yearning for all these years. The country is looking at us and it will not listen to the legalities that we are now arguing about. The country will be saying that Parliament defeated devolution. However much you will argue there that we have handled the things together and that time was wasted by those who sought to amend these Bills and so forth, you will not be very persuasive. I think that is why there is not much debate on this matter. I think we had agreed that we expand time, we bring these Bills back, that we debate them, we even amend them and defeat them, if that is what you want, but we extend that time. We can even send the Government back to redraft them if we find that they are not very good. That will be within the five months that the Government is seeking. I think that is the best way to deal with it. I support."
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