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    "id": 1122406,
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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. You have resolved the biggest problem we had using our own Standing Order No.133 and Article 118 of the Constitution. This Bill has my name as the former Leader of the Majority Party. I have the history of how we walked with this Bill. It originated from a task force appointed by the former Attorney- General emeritus, Hon. Githu Muigai. The Muslim leaders and stakeholders put in a lot of effort. The Bill first went to the Cabinet and then to this House. As you correctly said, this will be one of the Communications that you will be remembered for. Together with many Members of the Muslim leadership, we were wondering, because Waqf and Hajj are fundamentally two different things. Therefore, I think you have this afternoon solved 80 per cent of our problem. What remains is nothing. I understand that the amendments by the Committee are very agreeable to all of us. The few amendments by Hon. Millie will be sorted out. I have reminded her that her case is like allowing Muslims to participate in the election of a Pope. That Pope will not become a Catholic Pope. I agree with some of the amendments by Hon. Millie, because she sat with the Muslim lawyers from Jamia Mosque. We are doing very well and what we will disagree on will come to the Floor. The Attorney-General asked whether the Bill was dispensed with, because it has stayed here for too long. I really want to indulge our colleagues and Hon. Nassir, please, let us have a morning sitting with Hon. Millie and dispense with this matter in the afternoon. I support the Majority Whip. Now that we have resolved the matter of Hajj, I think we can all agree on other issues and convince each other. I only have one amendment. We have looked at the amendment of the Committee, and it is okay. We are only left with the amendments by Hon. Millie and I understand that she has done a lot of consultations with the Muslim legal team. Tomorrow morning, together with Hon. Nassir, we will look at the few points that we disagree with Hon. Millie and as she has said, it is a matter of give and take. I am sure we will convince each other. Hon. Speaker, I really want to ask Hon. Nassir to allow us to go by what the Majority Whip said, so that the Speaker can then have a position, and tomorrow at 3.00 p.m., just like today, we can have the Waqf Bill as the first item and dispense with it. This Bill is very important to the Muslim Community. This House will also go into history as one of the Parliaments that did a very good Government initiated Bill that will help the Muslim Community to sort out issues of trustees and resources in building the Islamic infrastructure. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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