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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/655310/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abdirahman",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to be left behind in expressing support for this important Motion this evening. Indeed, this Committee will give the Senate an opportunity to look at the pitfalls that we have experienced as a result of our last constitutional review that put the Senate as an ineffective organ. Although this is the fourth year, this will look like a mid-term review of what the challenges were with regard to devolution and how best the different institutions will have complemented each other. It will provide an opportunity to create synergy, so that we can see the successes of devolution. Quite a number of times, we have had challenges in terms of making sure who plays what role in terms of oversight functions between the county assemblies and the Senate. This is something that is clear in our Constitutional framework. Through this Committee, we will look at how best we can create the different linkages of the different institutions. I want to link my thought with that of Sen. Murkomen with regard to the failure of the National Assembly to give us our allocation that would help us to monitor and evaluate the various programmes that were undertaken in our various counties. I have come to the conclusion that it is the National Assembly that is rendering the Senate ineffective. This is the Eleventh Parliament. I am, therefore, surprised that there is no voice of reason in its membership. The Senate is a House that works in a bipartisan manner and looks at issues objectively as opposed to the rogue National Assembly. I am disheartened by the manner in which they have treated the Senate many at times."
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