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    "id": 1059502,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Wako sat. In the process of interrogating those issues, we actually discovered many more things. Speaking to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), it appears to us that not only as responsible Senators but as good lawyers, we must inform this House on the process. It occurs to us also that one of the Members of this House was a member of the Committee of Experts (COE) in the making of the Constitution. We did not know that there is a record of every debate that took place in the making of every Article in the Constitution. Therefore, in interpreting that statute, so that we cannot inform the House as to what role the Parliament plays in Article 257 vis-à-vis Article 256, we have asked for that HANSARD which is volumes and volumes and it has been provided. We are going through it, so that when we present our report, we will tell you what the intention was in drafting Article 257 in the way it is drafted currently, and many other issues. We are all in agreement. I am told that some of the Members of the other House, have disagreed with something we all agreed upon. We did this in the Election Laws Amendment Bill. We have agreed that we do not have monopoly of information or knowledge. Therefore, the Committee has also engaged experts, who will come and interrogate some of the things that we are doing, so that we have a good report. We had the benefit of those experts in the Election Amendment Laws Bill, that came into this House and therefore, the wisdom of having those experts will inform the detailed report on what we intend to do. The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Steering Committee had a schedule of things to do and laws to pass. We are going to go into greater detail. A week is not even enough, but we have agreed to take a week which is not too much to ask. Mr. Temporary Speaker, those reasons are good enough for the good lawyers and the Seniors Counsels sitting in that Joint Committee to produce a very comprehensive report, not only for the naysayers, but also the people who are part of the crusade and need more conversion."
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