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"speaker_name": "Mr. Otieno",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. Honestly, this is a good document that is going to radically change the political practice in this country. The hon. Members need to understand the implications of each and every clause. To be able to understand the implications of the key clauses in this document requires that a Member be allowed to ask as many questions as he can not only in the presence of colleagues but also experts. I do not think that this is something we can do here in a Kamukunji. We need to focus and concentrate our thinking in this document with resource persons so that each Member will be confident when selling this document to the rest of the population. I have gone through so many clauses but each time I read them the second time, I realize implications in future political practice in this country as being affected by a simple clause. It is not a matter of reading it through. It is really a matter of not only exchanging but also kind of interacting with each other and asking questions left and right until we are convinced that what we are going to pass is the Constitution for the future of this country. Honestly, let us not do a rushed job. We have time. We can sit for two-and-a-half days of intense thinking, asking questions, giving answers and consulting resource persons, and then we can come back and pass it. If we were to go through it here in the"
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