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    "id": 919550,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/919550/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "2012; the National Police Service Commission Act was enacted in 2014, while the Kenya National Human Rights Commission and the National Gender and Equality Commission Act were enacted in 2012 and 2011 respectively. The Parliamentary Service Commission has been enacted today and yet, this is the deliberative House that is tasked with the passage of this critical Bill. The question is how come we enacted laws concerning other constitutional commissions and aligned them with the current Constitution, but the one concerning Parliament is the last one we are doing today? It is simply because of certain political undertones. These are things we must overcome as the true representatives of the people of Kenya. This is why I thank Members for their understanding, appreciation and for their timely decisions on this Bill. I undertake, on behalf of the Commission, to shame those who have been attributing certain misleading creative imaginations on the Bill. Nowhere in the Bill does the Parliamentary Service Commission purport to increase remuneration of Members of Parliament. Has anyone seen it anywhere in the Bill? It is not there. I ask those who have been propagating that; those who have been talking ill of Parliament and those who have been abusing the leadership of this House that today, they have seen the contents of the Bill and they have become familiar with them. Sorry, but we will not be cowed or ashamed in doing the right things. What Parliament has done today is the right thing. Therefore, I hope and pray that once His Excellency the President assents to the Bill, it will see a transformative improvement in service delivery and the image of Parliament."
}