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    "id": 355094,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/355094/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support this Motion. The matter of our calendar is very critical at this time. Parliament as a whole, namely the National Assembly and the Senate, are being treated with extreme contempt by the members of the public. So, the first thing that we must do is to campaign so that Kenyans understand what we are doing. It is not enough to publish this. Most Kenyans have no access to our website. So, they really do not know what we are doing on a day to day basis. We need a lot of public participation in what we are doing. I wish to suggest that for the next ten weeks we should, on a weekly basis, have a media support by knowledgeable public relations officer and Members of Parliament, to explain to Kenyans precisely what we are going to be doing in that particular week. We also need to invite Kenyans to submit their contributions to their Members, so that we can capture the interest and imagination of all Kenyans in what we will be doing on a week by week basis. This should continue until Kenyans know what Parliament is doing. They see us in terms of big cars and some calling us greedy, yet children want to come to this House. So, you wonder what they are up to. They talk of education. The legislation that we made is for all Kenyans, namely, the least and the most endowed intellectually. Every Kenyan must be represented in this House. So, you cannot ask the Members of the National Assembly to account for their education. We are not making laws for PhD holders. We are making laws for hawkers as well. We must have Members who understand Kenyans of every walk of life before we can pass the right laws that apply to them. So, I suggest that for the next ten weeks, we must have an exercise to educate Kenyans on what we will be doing week by week. They need to understand all our activities in committees. We also need to invite them to participate with us until we are satisfied that they understand us before we tackle Serem the second round."
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