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    "id": 750983,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": " Hon. Senators, before I invite the Senate Majority Leader to move the Motion of Adjournment, allow me to make this Communication. Hon. Senators, today marks the last day of the ordinary sittings of the Senate, and indeed Parliament, during the current eleventh term. As the Waswahili say, “ Kilicho namwanzo, hakikosi mwisho”. As we assemble here this afternoon, it is important to visualize where we have come from, on the role and mandate of the Senate, our experience over the last four and a half years, our achievements and challenges, as well as what we envision the next and indeed future Senate to be. Indeed, it has been encouraging; even those of you who have decided not to come back to the House should be our ambassadors out there. Hon. Senators, you will recall that the first Senate existed in the immediate post- Independence period from 1963 until 1966, when the Provincial Assemblies were scrapped and the Senate itself got dissolved or rather merged with the House of Representatives to form one Kenya National Assembly. The Members of the Senate then were combined with those of the other House to form a unicameral legislature. In the long journey that followed towards constitutional reforms, devolution of power and resources became a critical component as a means to address marginalization and promote equitable growth and development in all parts and regions of the Republic. This was realized with the enactment of the new Constitution of Kenya in 2010, which established the 47 counties that you represent in this august House. The new Constitution reinstated the Senate as the primary institution charged with protecting and advancing the interests of counties and their governments, and, indeed, ensuring that the devolution experiment succeeds. Indeed, I could not be any happier than this week when the Senate stood ground for the umpteenth time on the quantum for the Division of Revenue Bill."
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