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    "speaker_name": "Mr. M’Mithiaru",
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        "legal_name": "Ntoitha M'mithiaru",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it has been a long journey and we now see light at the end of the tunnel. Where we have come from and where we are now, we have gone too far. It would be too expensive now to go back or retreat. It is easier to complete the journey and give Kenyans a constitution. The hon. Members in this House are the ones who are going to ensure that the journey that we started on constitution making is complete. Already, we have seen that Kenyans have done their part in terms of giving views. The Committee of Experts (CoE) and the Parliamentary Select Committee did their part. Indeed, when the Parliamentary Select Committee did its part and returned the document to the CoE, the CoE even did some further amendments. It is on that score that I would say that we had a retreat at the Kenya Institute of Administration (KIA), where we went through the document and we are now more informed than we were before. So, we are in a position to contribute effectively from a very informed position. Knowing that the Constitution is for posterity and Kenyans, then as Members of Parliament, we have to look at it in its current state now – in the Draft form – and then ask: What do we do? The CoE even did some amendments when they got the document from the Parliamentary Select Committee. So, also, as Members of Parliament, we cannot just take it for granted and pass it. We must critique because this is a document for posterity. It is not a document that we should just pass and forget about it. It is a Constitution that is going to govern all Kenyans for the next 100 years or so."
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