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    "id": 1056404,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1056404/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Finally, I am impressed with the consultations that you and the Hon. Speaker of the Senate spearheaded last year. Equally, the guidelines you have severally given to the respective Houses of Parliament which have been jointly agreed to ensure that the bicameral processing of the Constitution of Kenya Bill 2010 promoted by the BBI in Parliament is expedited as required under Article 257 of the Constitution. We have had several meetings, the last of which the Leader of the Majority Party alluded to which was yesterday. As leadership of Parliament from both Houses, we are totally in agreement and in consultation with our technical team. I thank the Clerk’s office in both Houses, the technical team and the Legal Department. They have enriched the discussion around how this House will proceed with this exercise. This is a very important exercise for this country. I think this is the only time in this country we are experiencing the people of Kenya making a decision on their own to come together and amend the supreme law that governs them. The other cases were always initiated through processes which included constituent assembly. Some people gathered together as Members of Parliament, people from various districts came together in 2003 and slightly before that, but it was disbanded. They were re-convened in 2003. It led in a failed referendum in 2005. We again started on a journey which led us to the 2010 Constitution. However, this is the first time that Kenyans have collected enough signatures and those signatures have counted in their various county assemblies. I know there was the “PunguzaMzigo”, which also managed to get some signatures. I do not know through which method because I did not see them collect signatures. Anyhow, I do not want to cast aspersions. They managed to get over 1 Million signatures. Unfortunately, they did not manage the process after that or they did not have the capacity and the political might that is required to push through an agenda like this and they failed miserably. I cannot remember how many counties approved that Bill, but I am sure they were not more than five. Coincidentally, some of those counties which approved the"
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