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    "id": 1113108,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1113108/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. We have been listening to the legal minds giving us some technical words and I think it is important to now listen to the logic. It is on record that this has been a very emotive matter in this House. I used to be a Member of that Committee and at one point, we had to plead with you to add us an additional one month so that we could get to the root cause of the problem. We asked for an additional time because we wanted to consult all the stakeholders for us to get to the root cause of this problem. As Hon. Kaluma said, everyone who was concerned was given a chance to be heard by the Committee, including Hon. Rasso. Even though I am not a lawyer, the basic question is that of conflict of interest.You petition the House on a matter and when the report is written, you propose amendments to it and they are carried. As you said earlier, the House does not normally have many Members on Thursdays. We are aware of that because some of us go to our constituencies and others to Committee meetings. Even though there are records, I agree with the Leader of the Minority Party and plead with you that we might need to allow more time so that we look at this matter, more so on the issue of it being unconstitutional. As a House, we do not at any point need to vote on a matter being deemed to be unconstitutional. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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