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    "id": 384561,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Like my colleagues who have contributed to this Motion, I stand to support. I support it for three reasons; one, somewhere in the Constitution, it is said that, that thing which is called the Provincial Administration shall be restructured. The wording here is “shall be restructured”. There is no option about it. But restructuring the Provincial Administration does not simply mean just taking Provincial Commissioners (PCs) from the provinces and bringing them to the President’s Office. That is not restructuring. Restructuring means that the very rules of the game that establish certain offices must be changed, because the structure of a state is given by the legal framework that establishes that state. So, in this regard, what Sen. Orengo and his team are trying to do or are intending to do is to create this legal order that will restructure the Provincial Administration. That is very important. You cannot restructure that Provincial Administration if you do not deal with the legal order that existed before it. The pretense that we can do a kind of a little game of just moving personnel will not help. Secondly, Madam Temporary Speaker, we must understand that we should not devolve the bad manners of the authoritarian regime through the counties. By the bad The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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