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    "id": 981365,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/981365/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "One of the things that has been of concern to me… I am happy that we recognised the issue of the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party and the Hon. Leader of the Minority Party. I personally have no problem with them having time because that is the practice. My concern is the issue that I once raised and gave up. I was raising it as a matter of practice, but people thought it was self-serving. That is the issue of ranking. We have not institutionalised the issue of ranking even within committees. When you are going in committees, there are always ranking Members who are given priority. In Kenya, we have failed to do that. I have raised it many times and given up. Perhaps, that is one of the things that we need to do. We should send a delegation - and I can be absent from it - because we need to institutionalise what is practised according to the system of governance that we have. My other concern is the amount of time that we give Hon. Members to contribute in this House. We always insist and say that we are the superior House and yet, de-facto, we have made ourselves an inferior House to the Senate. That is because if the Senate is debating the same issues like we are, they have sufficient time. They sound like they are wise because they have researched and have more time to input. But here, we push ourselves and after we have voted for 10 minutes which is not sufficient for a person who has researched, we further come and bring Motions to reduce our time to two minutes. Hon. Speaker, what serious legislator is going to be contributing on a serious issue of national interest for 10 minutes? Unless we just come here to be flower girls and boys in this House."
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