{"id":902252,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/902252/?format=json","text_counter":77,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Sakaja","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13131,"legal_name":"Johnson Arthur Sakaja","slug":"johnson-arthur-sakaja"},"content":"assembly. However, a matter that is county-wide, inter-county, national, regional or international concern should come to the Senate. You need to make a determination on this issue. Should the Senate be addressing petitions that are only affecting one ward within a county? If so, what will the county assemblies do with respect to petitions? We need to deal with county-wide, inter-county, national, regional or international concern at the Senate for us not to look like a glorified county assembly. All the wards in this country have issues and if they are to all bring their petitions, we will never be able to deal with them. I do not want you to make the ruling right now, but I am asking for a considered view on that matter. I think that it was an omission by the Rules and Procedural Committee when we amended our Standing Orders."}