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    "id": 716861,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I just want to remind the House that if we pass this amendment as it is and we do not reject it as Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has proposed, we shall be committing suicide. I want to illustrate. The amendment says that within fourteen days of the expiry of the period provided for in paragraph 7, the commission shall, upon receipt and consideration of the National Assembly and representation from the public, prepare the final report for publication in the Gazette. Mr. Chairman, Sir, the National Assembly does not even give us enough days for a Bill to be referred to the Senate. In other words, this is one of the Bills that will be passed by the National Assembly straight to the commission for publication and forget the Senate. The other provision is that where the National Assembly fails to make recommendation within the period specified in paragraph 7, the commission shall publish its report in accordance with paragraph 8. In other words, if the National Assembly does not do it, forget about the Senate, the commission takes over. If you pass this thing, you are committing suicide. Are we here to commit suicide as a House or to look at laws rationally and carefully and pass laws not only that will make this House do its work properly but also not to make this House completely irrelevant to law-making in Parliament? Mr. Chairman, Sir, if we go ahead and pass this, I will be the most pitied human being on the face of the earth, being the Senator in the Republic of Kenya and not knowing what to do even in my own interest. I appeal to you not to turn yourselves into voting machines. You have heads, you have gone to school, you have read the Constitution and you can read this thing and understand it. You should reject it. Thank you very much."
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