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    "id": 87565,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/87565/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "Dr. Nuh and Eng. Maina are both concerned about Ministers issuing contradictory statements. That is basically because of misinterpretation of certain provisions of the Constitution. That is the reason why, sometimes, you find one Minister stating one thing and the other, another thing. There is something that I want to say which will apply to the concerns of Dr. Nuh, Eng. Maina and Dr. Khalwale. But before I do so, I want to inform Dr. Nuh that, as a Government, we are going to discuss the issue of rendition and come out with a position on it. With regard to the issue of the Provincial Administration which has elicited a lot of discussions lately, I want to say this: A human being is a conservative animal who fears the unknown. That is the reason why you find that many of our leaders today still fear to live with the fact that the Provincial Administration, as we have known it over the years, is something that has to be reformed or restructured. They will tell you: Imagine a life without a chief or sub chief? There will be chaos in the country. What are the origins of the Provincial Administration? It was introduced by the British in most of its colonies to rule those colonies in a system that is called indirect rule. That is because you had the governor representing the king or the queen and now, the crown was handed down. You had the PC at the provincial level, the DC, the DO, the chief, the sub-chief and the headmen. Those people were never elected. They were being appointed because they were representing the Crown. But that system does not exist in Britain! In Britain, there are no PCs, DCs, DOs, chiefs, sub-chiefs, headmen and, more importantly, there is no chaos. So, why should there be chaos in Kenya merely because we have removed the chief or we have renamed him or her something else? We are not talking about the individuals holding those positions today. That is what is being used to instill fear in the minds of the people who are now working in the Provincial Administration. Those are civil servants who have been employed on permanent and pensionable terms. So, we are not talking about individuals who are employed in the Provincial Administration because they can and will be redeployed to other positions."
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