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    "id": 110651,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for those who want to use five minutes, ten minutes or 20 minutes it is the discretion of the individual Member of Parliament. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was saying that the Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Review, Mr. Ababu Namwamba, said on the Floor of the House that this document is on a transit train. That means that the document ultimately belongs to the people of Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Parliament is a very important organ of review. Parliament has the document not to mutilate but to improve it for the benefit of the people of Kenya. Issues on devolution, land and abortion are very critical chapters of this document. On the Chapter on representation, Article 89(1) is very contentious as far as the people of northern Kenya and those who come from sparsely populate areas are concerned. Article 89 gives express weight to densely populated areas. We must relook at this country as a country that belongs to all of us. My view is that chapters on devolution need to be improved by Members. I want to use the word, âimproveâ. The chapters on land, abortion and representation must also be looked into. As the Vice-Chairman said, I also want to say it here clearly that this House must pass this document and give the final verdict with the people of Kenya. This document belongs to the 39 million Kenyans who will, in their own discretion feel that if the people of northern Kenya have an issue and the issue of representation is not solved in this House, the people of northern Kenya will wait for this document at the referendum. Those people who feel that abortion is a very critical issue, and I want to say it here, as a Member who professes the Muslim faith, I have a moral obligation and a religious obligation not to allow in the Constitution of this country any Article that will allow abortion. But that again rests with the people of Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the Chapter on devolution, a lot has been said. There are 47 counties in the document. There are many amendments that are sectarian, individual and regional. We cannot call ourselves the leadership of this country if we bring amendments to this document based on our political interest, party interests, regional interests or ethnic interests. My view and the way forward is for this document to be passed by this House. The people of Kenya from North Eastern to Nyanza, Coast to Western need to look at it and if they feel in their opinion this document serves them better, they will have a choice. This is the document of the people of Kenya. We, as Members of Parliament, are here to improve this document on the basis of the people of Kenya. If we are going to have horse trading where we say, âremove the transitional clause and I will support you in the abortion clause, bring Majimbo and I will give you more countiesâ, then I think we better be honest to each other. We better be honest to the people of Kenya. We are not honest. We should not play the politics of deceit! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the 222 Members of this House must look at each other and see themselves as the representatives of the people of Kenya. You must not see yourself as coming from Central Kenya. I saw an amendment and I was very shocked. It was a sad day for me that a Member feels that Dujis which is 7,000 square kilometers cannot be a county but Westlands which is 70 square kilometers can be a county. It is very sad that Embakasi, Dagoretti and many others--- My position is very clear that the amendments brought to the House must not be national amendments. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must call a spade a spade. These are individual regional amendments. We are not proposing a document that when people ask for regionalism, the element of chasing other Kenyans from those regions comes into my mind. When we talk of regional governments, many Kenyans will remember what we went through in 2007. But if we practice politics of honesty, then we will tell the Kenyan people that this is the best document that the 27 Members of the PSC sat in Naivasha and came up with although, they could not agree. For five days we sat at the KIA and it was very shameful that the leadership of this country could not agree to a document so important and so significant to the people of Kenya. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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