{"id":1064038,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1064038/?format=json","text_counter":148,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Sakaja","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13131,"legal_name":"Johnson Arthur Sakaja","slug":"johnson-arthur-sakaja"},"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---"}