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    "id": 1049323,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1049323/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo - Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "The other issue that Hon. Sossion has alluded to is in terms of the obligations to the public and the promoters. We must balance in terms of principle, so that we do not have people bringing frivolous amendments yet at the same time when somebody has brought something that is weighty, it should not fall by the roadside merely because they cannot support it. So there must be a balance between what the promoter can do and what the Government can do just to ensure that as I have said, we are not bringing frivolous amendments. My other concern is that this Bill is loading honorius provisions that are not in the Constitution. Whenever you are bringing a Bill to give effect to the Constitution, it should be within the framework or the principles of the Constitution, not outside the principles of the Constitution. If you look at Clause 5 of that Bill, especially Clause 5(1)(a), it says for purposes of a referendum to amend a Constitution by popular initiative, pursuant to Article 257 of the Constitution, the promoters of a popular initiative shall collect not less than one million signatures of registered voters. This is okay because it is constitutional, but it then adds that not more than one - third shall be from one county and voters in at least 24 counties shall be represented. I think we are confusing this with the final votes from the counties when you go to a referendum. But when it comes to initial stages, we are actually giving honorius provisions that are not in the Constitution."
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