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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. What we are doing today has got historical consequences and impact. We may never feel the impact of what we are engaging in at the moment. One of the most gratifying things about discussing this Motion at this time is that we are doing it in this Chamber where many of the battles were fought for the achievement of the Independence of this country. Many of them who stood here to speak for the people of Kenya are no longer with us. I think it behoves the importance of this Motion that by some strange coincidence of history, we are discussing this very important Motion in this House. You stand to be counted amongst the founders of this nation that when it mattered, you addressed this nation from this very august Chamber. I am naturally a very happy man. If I was not part of this Parliament, I would have felt very disappointed. In the previous Parliaments, especially the first Parliament I came to, even standing up to speak in itself, you never knew how your day would end up. Many Members of Parliament were arrested from this very House for what they said in this Chamber and most of it had to do with constitution-making. I am glad that some progress has been made and we can be able to say what we want in whichever way we want to say it without the fear of consequences. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before we started debate on this Motion, the Speaker pointed out a very important matter in relation to the constitution-making process. I may be excused with respect to refer to one of the parts of the constitution that many of us would not referring to because we are more concerned with the body of the constitution rather than the preamble. In the preamble, I found these words which are very important. In fact there are two parts of the preamble that I consider very important in this constitution-making process. The first preamble says:- âHonouring those who heroically struggled to bring freedom and justice to our land. Exercising our sovereign and inalienable right to determine the form of governance of our country and having participated fully in the making of this Constitution.â So, if I begin with the last part of this preamble; it states in very clear terms that at the end of this process, the product that will go for publication as the Constitution of Kenya and become part of the basic law and the supreme law of the land, will be a document which has been made by the people of Kenya. This is quite different from the current Constitution, which was not a product, of neither this House nor the people of Kenya. The second part is: âHonouring heroically those who brought freedom to our landâ."
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