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    "id": 1065624,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cecily Mbarire",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to also participate in this very important moment by contributing to this Bill that is before us. Let me begin by saying that, indeed, I feel privileged that this is the second time that I happen to be a Member of Parliament when we are amending the Constitution. I was actively involved prior to the passage of the current Constitution in the clamour for a new Constitution. Many lives were lost. I will never forget the number of times we went to the streets of this city and many other towns in this country trying to push for a new Constitution. One of the biggest things that drove us to do that was to make sure that we had a Constitution that treated all Kenyans equally, gave freedoms and rights to the people of Kenya and ensured that Kenya belonged to everybody. I consider any effort to review the Constitution as a very important and sacred process. It is a process that should not be seen as taking away any gains that we fought for and included in the Constitution. If it does so, even in the smallest way, it becomes a real threat to the future of this nation. The Independence Constitution was amended well over 29 times and each single amendment took away from the people and gave more power to the Executive. It became such a distorted document until the final document could not compare with the first document. As a Member of this House, I would hate to be one of those that played a role in changing the Constitution and taking away whatever gains citizens of Kenya had got. I am listening to some very good things being said about this Bill. There are some very good things in it, but I want to tell this House that there are some very dangerous amendments in this Bill that will become a real issue many years down the line. We had hoped that we had created a Constitution that would pass the test of time. We had hoped that we would not have people wanting to do what those others had 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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