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    "id": 295160,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/295160/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for many years since the enactment of Chapter 212, its inadequacies developed and a feeling developed in the country that we needed to address this very important institution in a better way. Therefore, in promulgating the new Constitution, the country also decided to entrench this very important Commission in the Constitution. I dare say Article 237 was not among the contentious issues in the Constitution. It is, therefore, not an accident that this Bill is on the Floor of the House today. It is a very urgent law because as we all remember, the Constitution was promulgated on 27th of August, 2010 entrenching the TSC. There has been serious erosion in the existing Commission such that, under the existing Chapter 212, the original Commission comprised of 24 Commissioners. But now, because of continuous attrition, people acquiring their retirement age or their contract expiring, we only have seven left. There is, therefore, no other method. None whatsoever! The country must understand that there is no available option other than to fast-track this Bill into law."
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