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    "id": 1097649,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I wanted to say that even bringing the constituency assembly together was impossible. Remember we said there is a 20 per cent that we need to work on when we passed the 2010 Constitution. Even that has been shut out by the ruling of the courts. On the Referendum Bill, I remember that we tabled it in this House. It was at the very beginning, before any other person had a proposal. That time, the Leader of the Majority Party was Hon. Duale. I wish he was here to tell us where it went because we have been waiting for it to be brought to the other stages. Instead of it being processed, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs came up with another one and it was processed ahead of ours. That also happened with another Bill that we had done on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), on the issue of quorum. When I hear the courts talking about quorum, I know also that there are those individuals who made it impossible for us to process those Bills. Perhaps, they are rejoicing because now they seem to have cost us. As the CIOC, we worked on those two issues that the court talked about — the IEBC quorum – and we finished with that Bill and the Referendum Bill. We went through public participation. They are in the process. They should have been brought to the Floor to be processed. That was way before Hon. Kimunya came into office for those who would want to talk about it. I wish Hon. Duale was here to tell us why the House Business Committee never prioritised them. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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