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    "id": 981132,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/981132/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "to ensure that we have a commission. If another law will be made in the near future by the people of Kenya that they do not want or have no problem with the IEBC, or that they want a different system of electoral commission--- For example, suppose the people of Kenya say that they want a parliamentary system, it will be fantastic. The role of the commission will no longer be significant in Nairobi. It will actually be unnecessary. We should have a skeletal team in Nairobi, but with people acting in the counties. It is the people who will bring the Senators and the Members of National Assembly in the various constituencies. Then, the IEBC strength will be shifted to the constituencies where the right people will come here to elect their prime minister. By the way, I do not want to become emotional about this. I look forward to constitutional changes that are being proposed and I hope that we will move to a parliamentary system of government. Some of us are minorities. We have the majority groups and I have seen their proposals. They will be happier to have a presidential system of government. In a parliamentary system of government, having smaller communities represented in this august House will ensure we have a say because a cabinet secretary and the prime minister will be sitting here and we will question them. We will no longer have a leader who will harass MPs by removing security and conducting various investigations. That will not be possible because the prime minister will be first among equals. It is quite interesting in the United Kingdom (UK). When the Prime Minister loses office or resigns, he or she can go back to Parliament if he chooses and sit as a backbencher. They may choose to go to their small office with few staff and life continues. I am also alive to the fact that the majority groups like where Sen. M. Kajwang’ comes from---"
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