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    "id": 453949,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/453949/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2762,
        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "the Roman Senate to the USA Senate and the constitution from which we borrow heavily, there are things that are special about these senates. If we wanted a strong senate we would have gone the USA way. We would have borrowed from the Constitution of the USA and even borrowed from the history of the USA. If you look at the Confederation of States in Philadelphia they establish the senate as the representatives of the State, the same way our Senate is for the counties – it is not for the people. This took time. If you want to make the Senate strong today, there are no nominations anywhere in the world on the senate side. Why would you nominate 43 per cent of people who represent nobody and they still ask for power in the Senate? What do they want to do? If you want to strengthen the Senate, please, stop nominating. Counties do not need affirmative action. There are no genders in counties. We do not have female and male counties. We do not have disabled and not-disabled counties. There is nothing affirmative about representing a county. I think the Senate is a fallacy and there is something that Kenyans must try to do because it is not a Senate; rather it is a committee of representatives of all kinds of people."
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