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    "id": 421530,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/421530/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for saving me from Sen. Murkomen. One of the first things that we should do in educating the nation, particularly the national executive, on devolved government is for us to answer one primary question: Why did we create a devolved government? It is a long struggle from Independence which finally came to fruition when we established a new Constitution in August, 2010. Why did we do this? Sen. Wako has said that one of the reasons we created devolution was to encourage participation from the grassroots level, but also to ensure that there is equitable distribution of development in this nation, which is true. There are very many of us here in this House who write columns in newspapers trying to educate Kenyans in various aspects of the Government and development, but that is not enough because not all Kenyans read newspapers and not even those who read newspapers remember what they read. The art of advertising tells us that the more you repeat a message to people, the more they get the message. I remember when I was growing up and the Corolla car first came into the market in 1965 or thereabouts and at that time the Ford brand was very popular in this country, and Toyota came up with a very powerful advertisement:-"
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