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    "id": 402034,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/402034/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 242,
        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Bill that has been brought by our colleague, Sen. Khalwale. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, as elected leaders, have an extremely important duty, because the 40 million Kenyans that we represent look upon us to represent them. They hope that we shall represent them without fear or favour. It is a very big undertaking that must be done with humility and respect for the people that we represent. Since we were elected, and as everybody in this country knows, there have been fake or what has been dabbed as “supremacy” wars between the Senate and the National Assembly and also sometimes, between the Senators and the Governors of the counties. We, as Senators, represent counties under Article 96 of the Constitution. In my opinion and belief, we have a much higher calling where we must show sobriety and lead from the front. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issues that are brought by this Bill may seem mundane to some people because they may not quite understand what we are doing, and they may tend to think that we are perpetuating that so-called war of supremacy, but we are not. I think it is high time we understood the purpose of titles and why they are used. Titles are not to show how big you are in a county. I do not know whether people in this county appreciate the sheer poverty that our people have to undergo every single day. I sincerely believe devolution is the thing that will help this country devolve from that abject poverty"
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