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    "id": 1065610,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1065610/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "When we were doing part of the 2010 Constitution, I was part of a delegation that went to Murang’a. We went to visit the late Hon. John Michuki and he was against Artice 1(2) of the Constitution. He kept asking if we were sure we wanted to give sovereignty to the people, which they can exercise through elected leaders or directly. Eventually, he was persuaded by the President and he agreed to support the Constitution. What we are now worried about is what he told us to be careful about then, but it has come to help us because we now have a Bill before us that has been introduced by Kenyans who chose to exercise the sovereign power that is given to them by the Constitution directly and not through their elected representatives. It is a provision we had put in the Constitution knowingly. It was really pushed hard by those who were in the civil society then and the product of it is what we have before us today."
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