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    "id": 108915,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/108915/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member for Chepalungu has brought a very strong argument based on the Act that this House passed, the Constitution of Kenya Review Act. Even though I am not a lawyer, I want to make my contribution with regard to how I understand the whole process until where we are. We must accept that the Review Act was constitutionalized. That is why we made an amendment to Section 47 of the Constitution. If you look at the Constitution, you will see that there are some provisions of the Act that have already been overridden by the Constitution. If you look at that Act, it talks about 15 days. We are now talking about 30 days. That is because of the Constitution. If you look at the provisions of Section 47(A), you will see that we only have two alternatives. There is no other. The alternatives are that we pass this document as it is if we do not want to make amendments which must attract the two-thirds. Therefore, by implication, for us to defeat this document, the Constitution has raised the threshold that we cannot do it with the simple majority based on the Act, yet the Constitution is superior to the Act."
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