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    "id": 372122,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Oginga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, majority of Members of Parliament at that time did not want a prospect where they would struggle for votes only to become mere Members of Parliament. All of them wanted a parliamentary system, which gave them the prospects of flying flags. So, what actually happened did not reflect the opinion of the people. This is something which happened in the Committee where hon. Millie Odhiambo and others sat in Naivasha, where the Draft Constitution was changed in favour of a presidential system. I want to confirm that the presidential system of Government that we have is not a pure presidential system because it has a very weak Senate. In the United States of America (USA), where there is a pure presidential system, the Senate is the check on the Executive. In our case, we have a Senate which only looks at matters to do with the counties. So, we already have mongrels. So, if we want to improve on the mongrels, let us improve on it but we cannot pretend that we have a pure presidential system of government. We do not have it here."
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