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    "id": 1063750,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1063750/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "I have heard some arguments from certain lawyers – and they are entitled to their opinion because this is a matter of interpretation – and I disagree with them. They argue that if Parliament does not pass the Bill, it is inconsequential because the will of the people is supreme; that this is about popular initiative and, therefore, the people will have the final say. It was not the people who initiated the amendment of the Constitution. Despite the fact that you collected four or five million signatures does not mean that it is the people who initiated the popular initiative. Few people in the form of the BBI secretariat and “Handshake” partners proposed the amendments, but they want to seek for people’s signatures to pass them. If you make an argument that Parliament passing or failing the Bill is inconsequential, why do you not make the same arguments that even if they fail to be passed by 24 county assemblies, it is inconsequential? This is because it does not make it more of the people when it is county assemblies and less of the people when the Senate and National Assembly refuse to pass the Bill."
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