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    "id": 455041,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/455041/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "THAT, the Fourth Schedule be amended by deleting the words “HAS FULFILLED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR RECOGNITION AS A HERO UNDER THE KENYA HEROES ACT AND HAS BEEN DULY HONOURED AS SUCH” and replacing therewith the words “HAS BEEN DULY RECOGNIZED FOR HIS/HER REMARKABLE WORK IN KENYA IN THE FIELD OF … AND BY THE POWER CONFERRED UPON ME BY THE CONSTITUTION OF KENYA AND THE KENYA HEROES ACT, HEREBY CONFER HIM/HER WITH THE STATUS OF NATIONAL HERO.” If you look at the Fourth Schedule, this is where the President will be according the honour to these heroes. If you look at our heroes and the work they have done and what is provided in the Schedule as the honour for recognizing them, it is almost close to a joke. We must give the President the requisite Constitutional authority and a bit of power. In fact, if I had the time, I would have requested my colleague, hon. Ababu Namwamba, who is more flamboyant to put the terminology that he normally puts, in something like this. But I have tried to improve it to make it much better so that if we are honouring the heroes, then the President will be doing it by virtue of the authority given to him by the Constitution. He will be conferring the heroes with the status of a national hero with some energy and strength. What we have now is like an annex and this is not anything serious. If we had time, I would have done a more serious thing than this. But we did not have time."
}