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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "has been approved and is before the House, it is functus officio, if anybody wants an interpretation of the Constitution there is an advisory opinion. He can file a petition in the Supreme Court for an advisory opinion on what the Constitution says. So, all that discussion which went on about what the Speaker should ventilate on is nothing in my view; it was time which we could have used on other more productive issues. I want to congratulate the Member for Ugenya for bringing this Motion; this is because it shows that there is a problem in our constitutional order. There are things which we need to look at deeply as politicians as we prepare the country for democratic elections in the future. I want to say that the question of when elections are to be held, in my view, is not as serious as the components of it. I think that dates are dates. Every husband of a pregnant wife knows that they will have a baby in nine months. But, which other husband has the money when the child is finally born; they all still run to look for napkins and money to pay the clinic. So, for me I am not really persuaded by the question of which date it should or should not be. I think that the issue that we should be concerning ourselves with here is that, are we prepared to lead this country to the next level of democracy. Now, we are talking here as Members of National Assembly; we should know that there are other players in the political field; there are stakeholders in this issue who equally have a stake in it. There is, for example, the Senate and people out there. I do not know who brought this time down, but it is impossible to say anything within three minutes. Anyway, there are religious leaders and people of different persuasions out there. This is political engineering, and it is simplistic to think that because we can change it by way of parliamentary initiative, we can quickly decide an issue of monumental proportions such as this one. I think that what we need to have is political will. President Uhuru, is the President of Kenya and Members of Jubilee should know that they are leading a ruling class which will determine the future of this country. When retired President Moi was faced with this problem, he composed Inter-Parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG), in very difficult circumstances. When retired President Kibaki was faced with this he created---"
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