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    "id": 1017028,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1017028/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "Article 27 of the Constitution talks about the State providing a legislative mechanism of party action. It is not talking about Parliament. How does the State provide? They do so through a referendum. We cannot conduct a referendum as Parliament. How does he want us to increase? Article 97 says the National Assembly consists of 290 Members of Parliament from single member constituencies, 47 women county representatives and 12 nominated members. You can achieve the gender parity in the 47 women and the 12 nominations. How do you achieve gender parity in a fixed constituency of 290? If we were to accommodate more people, then that means we have to change the structure of Parliament and we require a referendum. How do we increase our numbers by bringing more women to increase the gender? Even if we were to do it, our hands are tied. Honestly speaking, I am not a lawyer, but I did not understand where the Chief Justice is coming from. Sometimes I am mistaken to think that maybe he wants to run for the governor of Nyamira and so he wants to be a very popular man in town here. Honestly speaking, it occurred in my mind. He must be up to something. Actually, the other day, the Chief Justice appeared before the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. One of the issues that was discussed was his succession. A precedent was set by the President of the previous Supreme Court and the former Chief Justice, Hon. Willy Mutunga. He left office six months before the expiry of his term for good governance purposes so that the Judiciary can have time and space to go through the process of nominating, through the JSC, the new Chief Justice. The Chief Justice told the Committee in my presence: “I am going to leave on 12th January at midnight. That is when my term is ending. Before that, I am in office.” He even said: “I am going to go on terminal leave on 12th December for one month, but even in that one month, I am just on leave and I will be working from home.” It is on record. The Hansard is there. I was shocked. In fact, an issue was raised there that for the four years he has been the Chief The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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