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    "id": 1183230,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1183230/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohammed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I will be very brief. First, I want to thank the Leader of Majority Party for bringing this important Motion so that we can dispense with this issue of the NG-CDF. This matter has been occurring as a problem in all the previous Parliaments that I served. We had issues with the NG-CDF in both the 11th and 12th Parliaments. Parliament has made several attempts to align the former Constituencies Development Act with the Constitution of Kenya 2010, especially after its promulgation. The 11th and 12th Parliaments passed laws that they thought aligned the then CDF with the current Constitution. For strange reasons, the Judiciary found that the NG-CDF is unconstitutional. I do not want Parliament to engage itself in an exercise in futility. What happens when the ad hoc Committee we are constituting goes to all the villages in Kenya, collects views from the people and we enact an Act of Parliament that makes the NG-CDF Constitutional but thereafter, the same people go back to court and have the same Act declared unconstitutional? I foresee it happening. The way I foresee this war, I do not think it is legal. It looks extra-legal."
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