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    "id": 1047925,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangundo, Muungano",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fabian Muli",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fabian Kyule Muli",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to deliberate on this Bill. As we pass this Bill, there are aspects that we need to understand, especially on admissibility of these Bills when they are brought to this House, that is, how that process is followed. I belong to the school of thought of my able Chairman, Hon. Jeremiah Kioni, on our understanding of the admissibility of the Bills in this House. I have seen our able Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs bringing a report. The question is whether we need a report in a legislative process when a Bill is in Second Reading? Those are the questions we need to ask ourselves because the process of making laws by this House is very important and must be observed. This Referendum Bill has elicited a lot of excitement in the public because the whole country is speaking about the BBI. I want to bring it to the attention of the public so that they can also understand that this is a Bill for the referendum process. It is a Bill which provides for the process to be undertaken as envisaged in Articles 256 and 257 of the Constitution on matters of referendum. It is not the BBI Bill that we are debating in the House. I have checked this Bill from the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and seen that there are things which we need to check when we go to the Third Reading. It does not give the ownership of the promoters of the Bill. They are not mentioned anywhere. The promoter of the Bill might wake up and oppose the same Bill. The promoter of the Bill and the people who drafted the BBI Bill might wake up and say that they do not need their respective documents, and that the documents are not there. So, this referendum process Bill should show the principle of promotion of a Referendum Bill. The other thing that this Bill is trying to establish is a situation where there will be multiple questions. On that one, I laud the issue raised by Hon. T.J. Kajwang’ because this is just one Bill for Article 257 of the Constitution. This Referendum Bill shows that there are multiple Bills. If we have multiple Bills, we can have multiple questions, but the Bill which is here seeks to amend Article 257 of the Constitution. So, we should not talk about many Bills. Therefore, this aspect needs to be considered during the Third Reading. The other thing is that this Bill, in Section 25, has tried to bring the issues of registering committees in constituencies. Referendums are matters of politics and you cannot raise the issue 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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