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    "id": 814834,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/814834/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am properly guided. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is not a very lengthy Bill and, therefore, I do not intend to take the normal duration or the maximum amount of time one is given when they are moving a Bill. One of the core duties or mandates as a House, is that we should, at all times promote and think of ideas that will establish devolution and give it the impetus needed to give hope to our people. It should never be lost on us, as Senators, that before the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution, this country had travelled an extremely difficult journey. For many years, we, as a people, felt that the centre was not holding together any more. The people were becoming extremely helpless and hopeless, especially with regard to development and pushing forward the agenda of the people of this Republic. Therefore, when we gifted ourselves the object of devolution and gave the Senate as its protector and custodian, we should always try to find ways and means of ensuring that devolution becomes better. We should ensure that the first cycle of devolution from, 2013 to 2017, is followed by an even greater cycle from 2017 to 2022. Otherwise, if we get to a point where citizens do not know where to turn to because the centre was found to untenable, it will be a great tragedy of unmeasured proportion."
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