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    "id": 1181399,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kamukunji, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Hassan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for this opportunity. I would like to oppose the Petition on the grounds that changes to the Constitution are weighty matters and they need to be considered very carefully and must be important and have the support of the majority of our population. This kind of change which would only favour the politically elite is of no use to our country given the fact that we have had a history of abuse of the constitutional system. I remember when we had the one-party system, our Constitution could be changed by the day or by the hour. In the end, our Constitution and the rights of our citizens became insignificant in the process of governance to the point that the value of our Constitution was less than a toilet paper. In the end, we changed that to a multiparty constitutional system which has worked very well for us in the years it has been in service. It will be very dangerous to start tampering with it. One day, we may get to a point where we want to change our Constitution, but we have just come from an election as others have mentioned. Elections and referendums are very expensive. Therefore, it is not the right time and it is not necessary to change our Constitution that often. We should be careful of such petitions."
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