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    "id": 841572,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we have got to a situation whereby we must also, if we want to move forward properly, see whether the current Constitution as it is serves us right. If, for example, we are getting into this problem because of a bloated Parliament with a workforce that is being paid for doing nothing or for having a 1,000 people doing work that can be done by 10 people, it is important that we relook at this matter. I have all through argued that we do not require 349 MPs in this country. I served as an MP under the old constitutional order and the current one. The Senate is a very sober House. It is a House where you can talk without disturbance, push and argue your point out. If you look at what happens in the National Assembly, it is like a school. A two streamed school of 400 pupils is expected to transact business and that business can only be transacted within three hours in one afternoon and each one of them is expected to participate. It is not practically possible. We must be pragmatic, whatever it takes. I do not care losing my position or seat for the good of the country but we must also face this matter head on and come up with ideas on how to address this problem."
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