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    "id": 1047909,
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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 borne by the law that a polling station will only have 700 people. This is what we want to do. Therefore, if we were to pass the Bill by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, without seeing the richness of the Bill by the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee, we will create a conflict. We will have a single constituency, but have one which says that import all the laws of the Elections Act into it and there will be a conflict of laws. So, it is important, gentlemen and distinguished ladies, (the ladies are more distinguished than this gender) this is not competition. We must find a way we can put these things together so that we are together. The last thing that I want to talk about is this thing called single question or multiple questions and all that is dividing us. Sometimes if we do not know something, please let us ask. There are people who went to school and spent years just studying legal terms and how to use them in law. Do not be a doctor of everything. You will make people abort, if you want to be a doctor, yet you are just a witch doctor. The law is very clear. The word “referendum” is used in the context of Articles 255 and 257 of the Constitution. Article 255 of the Constitution says that a referendum will be done in some manner. Then it proposes a Bill to amend the referendum; a Bill and not Bills. Where is this language of Bills and all the multiple questions? It is that Bill that is presented that is doing its journeys in the constituencies. There is something confusing and I heard veterans talk about issues which concern society like whether we should have gay marriages or should we have dogs walk on the streets at some particular hour of the day or of the night and such like issues? Nobody says that those are not questions. They are very important issues of the day but those are not issues of a referendum within Article 255 of the Constitution. This Act is implementing Article 255 of the Constitution only. We will have an opportunity of creating a Bill or creating an Act of Parliament which deals with many of these issues that we are talking about. Therefore, when I hear Members saying that let us do a law which governs everything with other questions, such as whether we should secede and so on, I get concerned. There will be an opportunity and when it will arise, the first thing we will do is the interpretation of Act. In the interpretation section we will define questions bordering on good governance and are also issues of referendum but right now, we are dealing with only one thing which is amendment to the Constitution. So, the multiple thing we are talking about... Do not put siasa where it is not necessary! You can just ask the lawyers who are here and they will give advice for free. You are talking about things which are not legal."
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