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    "id": 1123537,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " Now I see why the Committee was not involved here. We were privileged to have discussions with Muslim scholars on this matter. We were privileged to have discussions with a public trustee and with the SUPKEM. We have information on this. It does not require you to be a Muslim. In fact, Member for Suba North, that was misleading. Waqf property, as it was presented to us, is a benefit that can be conferred to anybody. You do not have to be a Muslim. Yes, it can be conferred to anybody. In fact, that was the gist when we had an objection from Member for Suba North. I remember there was another Member for Kiminini who was a little un-tactical and addressed something which looked like the Constitution. Remember somebody said that there is a constitutional issue; that it is discriminative and that it is a practice that will then deny members who are not of Islamic faith. Let me just say this: It is the person who is granting who must be from the Islamic faith. You may say no because you are reacting from the view of your religious persuasion but, according to what was given to us, the person giving must be from the Islamic faith. The person receiving can be anybody, including a poor and vulnerable child in Kadee who is a Christian. This is how we heard it. We have now circumvented the Committee because we do not have the knowledge that was given to us. We are in a position that we now have to push things through. In fact, I want to support you in the way in which this thing was originally written."
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