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    "content": "That, indeed, Mr. Speaker, Sir, is an opportunity many a House have not had. Indeed, no other House has had that opportunity other than, probably, the 1st House. On the other hand, this House can go through the ignominy of not being able to muster the courage of passing this draft Constitution and, there, we will not be alone. Many have failed before us, but we will be one of the Houses that failed in this duty, and the eyes of the people of Kenya are on us. This House, to this point, has acquitted itself well; this House is the one that passed the Constitutional amendment that anchored this process in the law; this House is the one that passed the roadmap Act that is guiding this process along; this House is the one that set up the Parliamentary Select Committee; it is the one that appointed the CoE; it is the one that has provided for this process up to this point. What is remaining are a few steps. These few steps are, probably, the most critical. What the House is called upon to do is to deliberate through this draft, and move the process forward to the people of Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if I was to paraphrase the former Prime Minister of Britain, Gladstone, who spoke on the 5th December, 1879, and, probably, that is where we find ourselves at this time: “Are we able to bear, at least, the consolation that we spared no effort in making the point at which the roads divide; the one part which plunges into suffering discredits, dishonuors and the other which slowly, perhaps, but surely leads the free and high-minded people towards the greater ends of prosperity and justice of liberty and peace.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, and hon. Namwamba will second."
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