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    "id": 917039,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/917039/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Kenya is a representative democracy. We are a Republic. That is the reason we are talking about the sovereign power belonging to the people under Article 1 of the Constitution. If you look at Article 93 of the Constitution after you have looked at Article 1(2) of the Constitution which says that the people can exercise that power directly or through their elected representatives, you will know where Parliament comes in as the elected representatives of the people. Article 93 of the Constitution establishes the Parliament of Kenya. Article 93(1) of the Constitution says that there is one Parliament of Kenya with two Houses namely the National Assembly and the Senate. People take it for granted that the Houses of Parliament have been so ordered by Article 93(1) of the Constitution. But it speaks to the seniority or superiority of the Houses against each other and that is why we rejected the debates going round that the two Houses are siblings. Article 107 of the Constitution provides that when there is a Joint Sitting of Parliament, the Speaker of the National Assembly shall preside. That is the language of the Constitution, and it is very deliberate."
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