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    "id": 422537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/422537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "The Leader of Majority Party has asked a good question. What is our role? Our role is to make laws, provide oversight and to represent our people. How is this Bill, in its current form, going to allow us to play all those roles? We need to ask ourselves these questions. In my view, Clause 4 of this Bill is nothing other than sweets that have been packaged in the Senate for us to support them. It is a way of trying to drive the camaraderie that has existed between us and the Senate. We must see beyond this Bill – this Bill is not going to help us! Therefore, hon. Members, I urge you that if we are going to proceed – already you know because it has been alluded to – we have things that we can do with regard to implementation in our constituencies. When you bring in development committees,sub- county development committees, county development committees and so on, honestly, which is which? What are you going to do? Are you not seeing that this is a back door attempt to even kill CDF? Why are we not seeing through this? This is a façade. This is an opaque way of the Senate trying to gain dominance over this House, the governors and everybody else."
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