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    "id": 338503,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogindo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 120,
        "legal_name": "Martin Otieno Ogindo",
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    "content": "The Executive has a duty to generate Bills and the Legislature has a responsibility to debate those Bills. It takes time for hon. Members to internalise Bills and debate them. We are in a new dispensation, which requires that there should be public participation in legislation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the concerns of Dr. Otichilo and Dr. Sally Kosgei because most of the Bills they are sponsoring have gone through the Second Reading. However, if we were to take everything else with the speed that we have to take the Bills that have gone through the Second Reading, we shall be converting this House into a conveyor belt. I was also looking forward to seeing certain Bills which I would consider have a bearing in the constitutional implementation and the timelines and I am not seeing them. For example, I was looking forward to seeing the publication and First Reading of the Division of Revenue Bill, and I am not seeing it. We expect the Supplementary Estimates to enable the operationalization of the county governments upon the elections being done. We are not seeing this. What we are seeing are Bills which are on the periphery of the"
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