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    "id": 1060003,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060003/?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": " Hon. Speaker I just wanted to make my contribution or be heard on this matter. I am surprised that the Chair of JLAC is requesting for extra time to deal with this matter and even asking that they would invite other experts to give input to this matter. With all due respect to this Committee, I know that it is a Committee that is populated with lawyers in this House and these are not just lawyers but renowned lawyers in this country. They are lawyers who when you hear their names, you cannot have doubt that they understand what they are doing. I am surprised that they can make such a request to this House when they very well know the provisions of the Constitution. Article 257 of the Constitution was put there to stop anybody who would want to derail any Kenyan or a group of Kenyans who want to amend the Constitution. We all know that the role of Parliament in general and committees in particular is basically ceremonial. We need to appreciate that what the Committee should have done was to just compile a report to this House for future references. There is no way that this House is even going to change a comma in the proposed Bill. How then do you change what Kenyans appended their signatures on? Kenyans decided that they wanted this Constitution to be amended in a particular way. If you want to amend this Constitution through parliamentary initiative, you do it because that is also provided for in law. What I think the Committee should do is to avoid this filibustering and derailing and delaying the process and bring a report to us. We want to deal with this proposed constitutional amendment Bill and give it back to the people of Kenya to make a decision. 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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