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    "id": 628424,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I also join my colleagues in congratulating Sen. Omondi for bringing this Bill at this time. This Bill is important in terms of the fact that it will go towards implementing Article 54 of the Constitution. There are Third Generation Rights of Freedoms under the Constitution that we have, probably forgotten about in our daily lives because they do not appear to be rights and freedoms which can be implemented immediately. To adjudge a society which cares and in which there is indeed equality and equal protection and benefit of the law will depend on how we treat our people who may not be well endowed as everybody else. This relates to what I am calling the second or third generation rights. Under the Constitution, it is contemplated that these rights will be enforced or implemented progressively. However, the space we are given by the Constitution should not be used to defer rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Madam Temporary Speaker, in contributing to this Bill, I want to be reminded of the fact that one of the most well-known and very effective Presidents of the United States of America (USA), former President Franklin Roosevelt, was hit by polio when he was relatively young. However, he rose up to be the President of the USA. In fact, there is nobody in history who has been president in the USA for more than two terms, except former President Franklin Roosevelt. The important thing about him is that he lived his The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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