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    "id": 916742,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/916742/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Some of the things that the National Assembly has talked about are unimaginable. In fact, when we go to the referendum, a system should be recommended where NG-CDF should be audited. These people are misguided. They think they should have the preserve of public resources; they should decide what is to be done. I wish this House could stick together and come up with a move during the referendum that will come to make it the real House that was envisaged in the Constitution. It was watered down somewhere in Naivasha. I wish we can retrace that and bring it back to where it was. Anywhere in the world, the Senate is known to be the Upper House which should be the regulator of all kinds of mischief that happen. Bills should be regulated here. That was the original intention of the Constitution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, these people should even be more concerned with trying to enforce oversight. What do they do? They go stripping the budget of the Auditor- General. How on earth can they claim they have any moral element to talk about oversight? Mr. Deputy Speaker, sir, we may go to court, but the final solution is for us to prepare for the coming referendum. We should also tell the people of Kenya what we feel about the people who want to kill devolution. Even before we go to court, we should go around this country, hold a couple of meetings and tell Kenyans that there is a move to weaken the Senate because people want to have the freedom to be gluttonous without any interference."
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