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    "id": 957095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/957095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will try and be extremely brief to the three minutes. I have gone full circle. I have been dejected, angry, disappointed, but eventually I have come to realize that as a Senate, this is the best we could do. I have come to live within the possibilities of what was available to us a House. Given the constitutional architecture, the kind of challenges that this House was up against, I do not think we should be berating ourselves the way I hear some of my colleagues doing and saying we have sold our souls and we have done things that are not right. I want to believe that because of the failure of leadership at the Executive level, we were stuck against our odds. It did not matter how long we were going to hold so hard against, I do not think we were going to figure out a solution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is my proposal. I have heard good proposals from colleagues saying, perhaps, we should move a constitutional amendment in this House. However, the unfortunate thing that we need to question is what will happen to it once it gets to the National assembly. I have seen the CoG has come up with something called the Ugatuzi initiative, a proposal to amend the Constitution purely to safeguard devolution in this country.We"
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