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    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I did not know that I was to be next. Allow me to first start with what I think is procedural. I have listened to my Chair and a ranking Member, Hon. Jeremiah Kioni and I sympathise with his circumstance. I am in his Committee, I join him in every word, but I cannot explain it more eloquently manner than he has done already. However, we need to deal with a bigger issue. We now need a referendum law. Even though we are now discussing the law emanating from the JLAC and there is another Bill sponsored by the CIOC, at the end of the day, we want a referendum law. Therefore, the content is more important than the persons who are spearheading it. We must find a way to sanitise this apparent incongruence and it can be done. I have looked at the Speaker’s ruling and you have just explained in detail this evening. It does not in any way negate the principles that I have heard here. In fact, it helps us to put together the thoughts that have been expressed by both JLAC and the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee. In my view, I have a practical solution. This Bill should be processed the way we are processing other Bills and it should pass. I can see it passing. Therefore, the Leader of Majority should take the first opportunity – even tomorrow- to list the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee Bill. Members will see that the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee carries very good positions, perhaps better than what JLAC has and pass it too. We will have two Bills which have passed Second Reading. At the time we come to Committee of the whole House Stage, the two Committees should come up with a united report guiding Members on the Committee amendments that are necessary. Therefore, if there is any other Member with different amendments, that is also allowed. That way, we will have two Bills which have been considered separately, but there is a united front which the amendments have brought. If that does not happen, speaking for myself, I will carry as many amendments from the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee as possible, as I am able to come by, to enrich what I think the JLAC has done. I think the best is to harmonise this … We have used taxpayers’ money; we have been officially commissioned to look at this thing and I do not see competition. There is no competition in these issues. There is no one Bill that is superior to the other. It is just that we are in one House and we want to come up with one document which speaks to everyone. The spirit we need to look at is then how to harmonise the Committee stage amendments that capture the spirit of all these things. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to move to the second matter which is related to what I have just said. If you consider the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee, many of the splendid debates that I have heard would not have arisen because many of them have been looked at. I heard the first one from the Leader of Minority Party, Hon. Mbadi, who talked about the fact that it is unconstitutional that the IEBC should be given powers which it does not have in the Constitution. If you look at Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee’s deliberations, that has been taken care of. Members are debating from a raw Bill. Had Members 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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