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    "id": 636430,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwiru",
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        "legal_name": "Alex Muthengi Mburi Mwiru",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, maybe it is the height. I agree with Members especially with regard to the importance of land in this country. I understand the sentiments of Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo, who is my senior. However, this is a constitutional Bill which is supposed to be passed by 27th August 2016. We have a pileup of other Bills that are supposed to go through the conveyor belt. We tabled this Report around 14th October 2015. Consultations have been ongoing all along. That is why there are quite a number of amendments which for some of them, we may agree or not agree because it depends on how we debate them. Although the Member has raised a point of order under Standing Order No.96, I know they had concerns about this Bill. I believe they had interests. I want to imagine the interest has not arisen today. It was there even at the time we were tabling the Report and debating it. It is one of the most debated Bills in this House. It was debated for three days, not even three hours and the HANSARD can show. Therefore, we are saying that ventilation was quite intensive. The Speaker is on record saying that he needs to give more time for debate in the Second Reading, so that Members can ventilate. In as much as there is that problem, I urge the Members to kindly know that there is the urge to pass and enact this Bill for this country to move forward. We must realise that urge. I am not saying that it is a must that you do it today."
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