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    "id": 1017233,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "and their hard-earned democratic space… and then you express yourself that your role is simply to see. How simple can you be simple? At the end of that discourse he says that we have to enjoy this peace together. That there is no gain without pain and that we should endure the pain together if this is going to lead us to a transformation agenda. Well, if you have to enjoy the pain, you are going on terminal leave, go and enjoy that pain but do not bring Kenyans as a country, into this type of pain. This is not pain; this is a judicial coup. The only thing I am happy about is that he has set the stage where everybody is now convinced, I do not think that my colleagues- whichever shade of opinion- can now rise to think that there is anything left for someone to convince them about the referendum. There are a lot of issues that we must discuss. I remember Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo, the Member for Gem, stood here and said that we will one day have to meet eye-to-eye because of this 20 per cent. Time has come when now Kenyans must agree that this Constitution is ripe enough for refixing so that it can be repaired. One of the things that I hear people talking a lot about is Article 27. Article 27 is very interesting. I do not see anything called gender parity in it; there is nothing. The only language I see there is a form of an affirmative action. There is nothing about two-thirds or one-third. But what is interesting about Article 27 is that it is inherently contradictory because it begins with saying- “(1) Every person is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law. 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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