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    "id": 956774,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/956774/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "argument. Our argument for DORA is scientific. It was based on some precedent. In the year 2015, this same House forced the Division of Revenue to pass through the National Assembly. In that same spirit, we knew our base was Kshs 314 billion, and our inflation 6.9 per cent. We even became more scientific by saying let us make inflation at 4 per cent. What is this that we backed out for other than looking like we are a sharing a carcass on a butcher‘s table? Mr Speaker, Sir, even on the illegality of changing the commencement date, how do laws apply retroactively? How can we say that we are in this House defending devolution? How will Kenyans take us seriously? When we go to court, it looks very ridiculous because it is one Speaker suing the other. At some point, we must have this idea of stopping being stupid by being magnanimous. We also have to rise to the occasion and stamp the authority of the Senate as an equal and the upper House of Parliament. That is not going to come from legal jargon, hii ni siasa bwana; lazimatupigane mundu khumundu."
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