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    "id": 732286,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "I also wish to congratulate the incoming Clerk, Mr. Sialai. The order we have in this House is you as the supreme president and your deputy as the Clerk of the National Assembly who serves under you and helps in putting this House in order. Just like my colleague has said, we have many brains which we waste. We made a visit sometime last week to the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom (UK). We learned that the House of Lords is the House which is, in one way or another, comparable to the Senate that we have in this Parliament. It is the House where most of the distinguished members of the public and people who have been serving in respectable capacities and positions retire to. They make laws and deal with issues in that House. That is where people who might have served as Members of Parliament, bishops and great people in the society go and make contributions. If time allows me, I was thinking that one time we might change the Constitution to make the Senate not so idle but to allow Members of Parliament who might have served for more than 10 years to retire there by virtue of having served for 10 years. Clerks who have also retired here can go and serve the Republic in their capacity as senators. The current crop of senators is made up of individuals who are grappling for positions. That House needs people who would want to serve in their capacities as elders of this nation. I wish him a good retirement. We also wish that one day we would have some other positions in this House and we can make use of them. He could be an elder so that we can consult him on matters of this Parliament. Otherwise, I thank and congratulate him."
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