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    "id": 1049452,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kipyegon Ng’eno",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also wish to rise to support this Bill. I remember that this referendum Bill has been on the lips of Members of Parliament for a long time. It is only that it has never had an opportunity to be dealt with. We have had a clamour for referendums. Initially there was an initiation for a referendum called Okoa Kenya, and then there was another one. We never had any law to guide us on those particular proceedings. There was Punguza Mizigo which never went through. I think the clamour for this one now is based majorly on referendums that may be lying ahead of us. I believe that we are doing this one in good faith and not for the BBI, but for posterity and for the many referendums that we might be having in this country. I wish to state that under Chapter 1, Article (1) of the Constitution, the sovereign power belongs to the people of this country. In addition, it is vested on the elected leadership. The supremacy belongs to the people of Kenya. It is them who will decide many things. It is them who would decide to send us here and recall us. It is them who make decisions on this particular part 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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