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    "id": 112273,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 198,
        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, looking at the Constitution of Kenya Review Act, 2008, the various stakeholders have been put there that will participate in this process. We have the Committee of Experts, the Parliamentary Select Committee, the National Assembly and the Referendum. At every stage, provision has been made for input from all sorts of people, particularly the Kenyan people. I believe that where we have reached, the Committee of Experts have received memoranda and all kinds of deliberations from the members of the public. The document that will come out of this exercise is supposed to be in the interest of the Kenyan people. Even in the selection of the Parliamentary Select Committee, it is clearly stated that the Parliamentary Select Committee’s composition should take account of regions, gender and ethnic interests. So, if we have already provided for that, then the corollary of that is the Parliamentary Select Committee has taken account of all our interests. Where the Naivasha Draft reached, I think what is really left for us to do is to ensure that the draft document comes before this House and is passed and it is now ready for publication by the Attorney-General and ready for the Referendum. If we begin to introduce amendments at this point in time, I think we will derail the process. If that is the reason for our consultations, then I will not support them if they will lead to differences. I would rather that those differences remain where they are and we pass the document. They can resurface later. At the end of the day, what is important is that the Kenyan people’s interests must be taken care of. We should be looking at what"
}