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    "id": 659083,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/659083/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion for Adjournment. I wish to emphasize the importance of the conference that we are planning ahead. Money should be spent prudently and at the end, people should gain knowledge on what the county assemblies and the Senate do. We would like to see even reviews on some of the Bills that were passed by the county assemblies that we feel are not constitutional. Some citizens also have issues with some of the Bills that were passed. I hope those who are researching on content will bring out issues that Kenyans can understand so that we can work together with the county assemblies. Secondly, health is very critical. We only talk about the billions that go to health facilities and forget the basics on health. The Constitution requires that a Kenyan should walk into a hospital and come out better than he or she walked in. The other issue that we need to address is ethnicity. In this conference, we need to be frank to ourselves, that we devolved ethnicity. How are we going to deal with it? We have just received the Land Bill from the “Lower House”. This Senate must bring back sanity. We cannot go the route the National Assembly has gone by proposing that Bill. I hope those are some of the issues we will look at critically. It is the Senate that will unite this country and ensure that no resources will be used by people to kill each other because the law does not allow that. I hope that the Senate will do this country a favour by passing the Gender Bill. Today, we go home wondering whether the National Assembly really understands why the formula was the only issue we could not put as a principle in the Constitution. We have a clear principle and it is, indeed, a constitutional Bill that has a timeframe. I would plead with the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader that if we bring the Gender Bill to this House, it should be passed by more than 40 county delegations. We will then take it to the National Assembly and go through mediation and agree on it in the end. It is then that this House will make history and the two-thirds gender issue will never again be an issue. We have to do this before August. I thank you and all the Senators. I wish our staff well as we go on recess. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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