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    "id": 1047928,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to add my voice to the Referendum (No.2) Bill of 2020. This is a very important Bill for this country and our people. We have had several referendums, as Members have said. We did those referenda without a law that would guide us to do them, but we somehow survived. However, at this point in time, I think the Bill has come at the right time so that we may set modalities and processes that have to be followed for purposes of coming up with a good referendum that will satisfy every person in this country. It will be good for us as Members of Parliament, and as a country, to delink this process from the BBI. It will be very good for us to look for a law that will be there for a very long time and that will take care of the issues that will come in the future. It will give flexibility for purposes of dealing with these issues in the best way possible. This law is important in the sense that we need to really be very sober as MPs. We need to agree with each other. We need to talk to each other. We need to understand each other so that we can come up with a harmonised law that will take care of the interests of all Kenyans. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee had a meeting and came up with a joint report that is in a draft form. However, we have not been able to look at it. Looking at the Report presented by JLAC, there are so many issues that refer to regulations. When there are 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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