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    "id": 1049434,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kandara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Alice Wahome",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alice Muthoni Wahome",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I agree with my colleagues who have spoken before me that this Bill is timely taking into account that there is a referendum in the offing. Therefore, we are in order to come up with this proposed Bill. When this Bill was being discussed at the committee level, I was serving as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. I was one of those Members who were undemocratically axed from that Committee. I am familiar with the contents of this Bill. I have listened to my colleagues contributing to this Bill. I am in agreement with some things, but I want to reiterate that this Bill is before the country. I have listened to, for example, Hon. Junet on the Floor of this House and he needs to disabuse himself from the BBI Bill because, according to him, he is the promoter. If you ask me, that Bill is erroneously and fraudulently being promoted by Waweru and Junet. I say this without any fear of contradiction. Public funds have been used for the Bill that was initially promoted by his Excellency the President and the Rt. Honourable Raila Odinga. It would have been in order if the BBI Bill was a Government Bill, if there is something like a Government Bill. Being a popular initiative, if there was a law that was guiding that process, then it would have been safely called a popular initiative. The other thing I want to react to is the statement by Junet while contributing to the Referendum Bill because he feels he is the promoter of the BBI Bill. The Bill is now in the public domain. The Constitutional (Amendment) Bill is in the public domain. It belongs to the public…"
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