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    "id": 500810,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank colleagues who, this afternoon, from 3pm to close to 6.30 p.m., have debated this constitutional Bill, which has a deadline. Secondly, this is one of the Bills we gave an extension of time of nine months. This is an indication that the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya is working. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, people say that 46 Bills have been enacted by the National Assembly. They are now waking up and saying that they have not been given a chance to debate; where were they in the last two years when we were enacting 46 pieces of legislation? I will do it on another day but last night I agonised over the bicameral system in Kenya. I read newspapers and got what the late Tom Mboya, and many others, said about the Senate; what they said unfolded in my mind. I have no intention of winding up the Senate. The Senate can only be wound up through a referendum, and the wishes of the Kenyan people. I want to make it clear that after wide reading I can confirm that Kenya is not fully bicameral. What is in Kenya is what was borrowed from South Africa. The Senate in South Africa is called “The National Council of Provinces.” So, in Kenya we do not have a full bicameral Parliament like in the United States of America and other developed democracies. That is why the Kenyan people decided to give the Senate limited powers. Today we have concluded a Bill in one afternoon and I hope this Bill will come for Third Reading. Coming to the Bill, what is the Public Service? The Public Service is the biggest employer of the Kenyan people compared to the private sector and the domestic market. What are we doing? We are complying with Article 232 of the Constitution. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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