{"id":1017215,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1017215/?format=json","text_counter":328,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay Town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":{"id":1565,"legal_name":"George Peter Opondo Kaluma","slug":"george-peter-opondo-kaluma"},"content":" Hon. Speaker, let me rise to help. It is not the business of this House to make the Constitution or to amend it. The two-thirds gender principle springs from Article 27 (7) of the Constitution, in particular, which is a Bill of Rights. It is a fundamental human rights provision requiring referendum under Article 255 of the Constitution. So, you may wish that it were done, but the question we are asking is: If Kenyans did not do it and it requires Kenyans to do, why punish Parliament for it?"}