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    "id": 1045692,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "the CKRC Act, which became redundant after the promulgation of the new Constitution. So, we have an opportunity. Parliament, and this House, has indeed, a very clear role of amending the Constitution either through a parliamentary initiative or through a popular initiative. We must agree there exists a lacuna on a number of issues. I want Members to read both Bills. If I had the choice, the Bill by the CIOC was a very good one. Why do I say so? It was defining each and every item. I really want to ask Members of the CIOC, led by the Chair who is Hon. Kioni, when we come to the Committee of the whole House, please, bring some of the salient features so that we have a very good law. If you read Article 256(5) of the Constitution, it is not clear within what timelines this whole referendum should be conducted. There must be timelines from the beginning to the end when the IEBC will present to the President for assent. There is completely no timeline. So, a timeline is very important. It even does not tell us, for example, it is not clear within what timeline the President is required to request the IEBC to conduct a referendum. The moment this House and the Senate pass the Bill and the two Speakers submit it to the President, the President has no timeline. He can keep it as long as he wants. This Bill must state how long the President can have that Bill to amend the Constitution, particularly to matters relating to Article 255 of the Constitution. You and the previous House Business Committee are my witnesses. One of the failures of the 10th and the 11th Parliaments, and we did so many legislations, was an oversight that we did not do a referendum law. It is Kenyans’ culture that we sit pretty and rush when the matter is with us. We are not even learning from the Kriegler Report. We are told not to change our electoral commissioners two years to a general election. This is a country where people do not want to follow the due diligence of the rule of law."
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