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    "id": 358459,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, without repeating what my colleagues have said, there is a history to this debate. When we were in the Tenth Parliament, many of us, as colleagues, were asking each other: “Are you going to be a governor? Will you be running for Senate? Will you be running for Member of Parliament or the County assembly member or as a women representative?” Many of the conversations ended up--- Those who chose to go to the Senate did so because, as has already been said here, of their age and how many years they had been in Parliament. Therefore, I suspect that the agitation for excessive power in the Senate is probably coming from those who are there for the first time, the new Senators who are young. I would say that in your ruling it will be prudent to help the country, and the young Senators who vied for that position not aware that they would not be doing what we are doing here in the National Assembly, to see what the Constitution writers intended for the Senate. We have come in with a new system of devolution, and it is very true that devolution is a key pillar in this new Constitution. For it to be successful, the Senate was mandated to work very closely with"
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