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    "content": "consideration of the Bill, pursuant to Standing Order No.62 (2). Hon. Members, as the House henceforth, proceeds with the consideration of the Bill with this guidance, may I end by stating that, as your Speaker, it is my considered finding that the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020 promoted by the Building Bridges Initiative is properly before this House. Further, it is my considered view that, in the reading of the Constitution, no state organ or person to whom power is delegated by the people under Article 1 of the Constitution can stand in the way of the exercise of the sovereign power of the people of Kenya to chart the course of their future in any manner they deem fit within the provisions of the Constitution. I, therefore, wish to urge Hon. Members that, while debating and deciding whether to pass the Bill or not, the House must always be mindful of the considerations that motivated the people of Kenya to make and reduce their current social contract into writing in the first place. The last three paragraphs of the preamble to the Constitution of Kenya encompass these considerations where the people of Kenya, while RECOGNISING the aspirations of all Kenyans for a Government based on the essential values of human rights, equality, freedom, democracy, social justice and the rule of law; and EXERCISING their sovereign and inalienable right to determine the form of governance of the country, and having participated fully in the making of the Constitution; ADOPTED, ENACTED and GAVE the Constitution to themselves and to their future generations. The centrality of the people to the making and amending of the text of the Constitution cannot, therefore, be gainsaid. The House is accordingly guided. I thank you."
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