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    "id": 1031919,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, if recommendations are not allowed, I can assure you that from all sector reforms, pastoralists, youth, women and many other quarters will reject the BBI Report. They will be setting up the BBI Report for a fall. If the President clearly stated that the BBI is open to conversation and recommendations, why are we being forced not to make any recommendations yet this is not medication that is prescriptive in nature. Madam Deputy Speaker, if we do not allow recommendations, I would like to besiege my colleagues that it would mean the amendments to strengthen the Senate will go through the window. If amendments are allowed to the BBI document, it will mean that the Senate will be part of the process. If we allow the pastoralists, guarantee minimum returns and other quarters to forward their amendments, we will be building bridges. The Deputy Speaker and I come from areas that rely on agriculture business on items such as tea, maize and coffee. We wanted the issues of tea to be discussed today because that is where the guarantee minimum should be factored in the BBI process. The intention of collecting one million signatures to orchestrate a popular referendum should be stopped for us to address the issue of COVID-19 pandemic in this country. I do not know what the intention of collecting signatures is if people are dying? How will you lead the dead? We should address the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic first before we begin working on the constitutional reforms unless being power unless we are just power hungry and would like to cling to power. My advice to the President is that he should respect the Constitution and refuse the advice from some quarters that he is too young to retire. After the President has served his ten years in power, many other people would also like to run for presidency. Let us follow the process to continue by respecting the Constitution. Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank you."
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