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    "id": 622251,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/622251/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in appreciating and thanking the petitioners for bringing their Petition to the Senate. However, I believe that this Senate needs to take these Petitions seriously. It appears that Kenyans and residents in our counties out there take this House seriously. When a Petition is presented before the Senate and it takes us three, four or five months, to be responded to, it does not augur well with the public. We need to take them seriously and appreciate that people believe in the mandate of this Senate. We need to expedite the process of reporting on petitions. I, therefore, call upon the particular committees that already have many petitions pending, including my Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights - there is a Petition from Nandi County that is still pending. We need to take it seriously, expedite the process and send a message back to the counties so that we do not find ourselves in the same trap as the MCAs and other constitutional institutions which have the mandate to deal with some issues that come through these Petitions. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I request the Senate and the Committees to take these petitions seriously."
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