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    "id": 418598,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/418598/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njagagua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Muriuki Njagagua",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, while still at it, we must appreciate that we only have about 67 Senators. They have gone ahead to create more committees for that House to match the number of the committees that are in this House. You find that each Senator is now sitting in about seven to ten committees. Surely, are they able to transact the business of the day seriously when a man or a woman has to sit in about seven or ten committees? Are they able to discharge their duties? Are they able to give their best to those committees? So, we are saying in as much as it is in the Constitution, we must agree that some organs must be done away with. I am not saying that the Senate should go, but we must open up that national debate, debate and agree on whether we need the Senate. Do we need 47 counties? We know that some of them could be merged to create a bigger trading block. We all know that India, China and Nigeria have big populations. Nigeria has about 150 million people but it has fewer counties than us. China has over one billion people and they do not even have 30 counties. What are we doing with our 47 counties? These are the organs that are “eating” into our Budget and ballooning the national wage bill."
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