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    "id": 1064038,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1064038/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will gladly do so, and I would like Sen. Linturi to listen carefully. If you look at Article 257 of the Constitution, all the processes, from the setting up of a BBI Secretariat to the gazetting of a taskforce, meeting in Bomas of Kenya, going to Naivasha with Members of Parliament as strangers to the process of popular initiative- -- The first document that is introduced in a popular initiative is the one that is gazetted by the promoters in Article 257 (4) and (5). That becomes the first document. There is no requirement in our law for a popular initiative or promoter Kenyan to conduct any public participation before drafting a constitutional amendment. I can decide with Sen. Ledama to draft a proposal to create 100 constituencies in Narok, so long as I get one million signatures. Thereafter, I will go to 24 counties and then public participation is done. I have the right, and I challenge anyone, including my Chair, the Senior Counsel, to show me---"
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