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    "id": 421647,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Gwendo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joy Adhiambo Gwendo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to add my voice to this Motion which is very important to this House and to our people back at home. If you want to know that our people do not understand the roles of our leaders and that they do not have the basic knowledge of the Constitution, start with people close to you or people who are not legislators. Recently, I sat with friends who came from Nyanza. They did not know who their Senator was. They did not know the difference between the Senator, the Member of the National Assembly or the Governor. This is probably because they have not taken a keen interest or because we have not taken time to repeat it to them. If we embark on serious civic education, then implementation of the Constitution will be done to the letter. When we were dealing with the Wambora issue, people said all manner of things. Some people said that the Senators were fighting the Governor. I believe that if the electorate understood the role of the Governor and that of the Senate, then we would not hear such cases. A country like Rwanda, before it went into a referendum, it held civic education for two years. We are not an exception. The more we educate our people, the more devolution will work. We know that learning is a process. It does not end today, neither does it end tomorrow. The more you drum something into people’s heads and tell them the role of the Senate, the more we will save a lot. This will make Kenyans know how to access certain things. For instance, they will know who should sort out issues regarding roads, school fees and hunger, among other things. Once we understand devolution and the Constitution, all these things will fall into place. This will only happen if we carry out civic education."
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