{"id":868534,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/868534/?format=json","text_counter":210,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Mwaura","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13129,"legal_name":"Isaac Maigua Mwaura","slug":"isaac-mwaura"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, the word “Senate” comes from the word s énior in French, which means senior. In fact, even God is called Sénior or senior. We cannot have a situation where you have a Senator and then somebody there calling himself Member of Parliament (MP), which then gives him the impetus to think that we are a lower House. Of course, what has happened is a situation where you have had the advantage of an existing institution. Therefore, this institutional memory, procedures and practices then push this agenda forward for the National Assembly."}