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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, this is a good day for us, as a Senate, that we are discussing distribution or division of revenue between the national Government and the county governments. There was a first Senate that would have done this job because I think it was set out even better in that Constitution. But instead of debating the Division of Revenue, so that regions would get that revenue, they dissolved themselves popularly. It was the first elected body to dissolve popularly. One of the then Senators came from Mbita Constituency. This is my constituency. He was the Senator for South Nyanza who was, of course, thanked with a seat after dividing the then Lambwe Constituency. That is how Mbita Constituency was created. Senators were bribed to dissolve themselves popularly. I hope we will not do such a mistake. I am not about to dissolve myself. If they did what they were supposed to do 50 years ago, Kenya would not be the same again. We would have developed some of these institutions and infrastructure. I believe the country would be in a better place than it is in today. It would not have been the most unequal society that we are in the world today. We, as a country, will have to work very hard to deal with this tag of “the most unequal society in the world” after South Africa and Brazil. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was listening to the Members of the National Assembly, the Lower House, yesterday evening speaking and pitied them, because you cannot win in such a debate. If somebody says “I am the greatest” and another one also 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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