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    "id": 1065407,
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    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "If the consultations could reduce, the ultimate recommendation of this Report is that both Houses approve the Bill without amendments. That is on page 169. It is true that there are Members who have spoken prematurely on this, not knowing the conclusion of this Report. The Report does not recommend any amendment to any part. I will explain. We were unanimous on the 32 issues that the Chairman has spoken to, except one which had a divergence of opinion and what we did was to include both shades of opinion. They are both in the Report. In the course of these consultations, we identified some minor typos and I will speak in terms of how they are dealt with. It is the role of any committee that is tasked with such work to identify what could be the pitfalls in that journey. That we did. If you are irresponsible, you ignore them and hope that no one will notice. Sometimes, it has disastrous consequences. But if you are responsible, you identify them and see how to resolve them. If you read the entirety of this Report, where we have identified pitfalls, we have suggested how to overcome them. That is what some people misunderstand and think it is sabotaging the Report and the process. That is actually facilitative not disruptive. It is to protect this document from any possible fraud thereafter. Especially, if one reads the Report completely, one will see - and I will come back to this at the end - there are only six minor errors of typos and they are on page 99 of this Report. We decided that we cannot touch two of them because they would require us to put ourselves in the place of the promoters. We cannot substitute ourselves for the intention of the promoters. The other four, in the Bill before us, you will see that three of them are actually not in this Bill. There is only one and I will speak to it and it is quite minor. So, I want to let the people know that there are no major issues in terms of the inconsistencies or typos as may have appeared. The fact that we identified them does not magnify them. They are very easy to deal with. I assure the nation and this House that the Committee was unanimous on all the 31 issues. There was no division between the Senate and the National Assembly at all throughout our deliberations. You will see in the signature page that it is signed across the board. Hon. Speaker, we agreed, and even after consulting with the experts, that this is a popular initiative under Article 257. The question of who initiates it is irrelevant to whether it is popular or not. We agreed that in all the countries where you have popular initiative, it is an additional measure. Constitutional amendments usually could be proposed by Parliament or by the Executive. Popular initiative gives any other person the opportunity, but does not exclude the first two. Even this Parliament can choose to initiate an amendment by popular initiative rather than inside this House. So, the issue that the Executive may have initiated it does not take away the fact that it is a popular initiative. 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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