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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Bidu Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I lost my card. It was stolen somewhere in town and I was not able to get it. I thank my fellow lady Member who went to the Clerks-at-the-Table and gave my name. Mine is just to make very few remarks on some of the proposals by the President. Before the Constitution was promulgated in 2010, there was a lot of lobbying and talks for several years, and people fought so that we change the Constitution. The Constitution was changed and what we are having today is what was agreed upon. However, it seemed that, at a certain stage, some selfish things came in. From lawyers and people who have the expertise, it was on the issue of the system of governance. A system of governance is either presidential or parliamentary. We did not go for any of them. We are told we went for a hybrid system. If we went for parliamentary, everything would have been parliamentary and we would not have issues. If we went the presidential way, we would have a presidential system and there would be no shortcuts in between. We are now getting into this confusion probably because the people in power did not want some of these things to happen. That is selfishness. In Kenya, what we are suffering from is selfishness by individuals who are given power by the people. If we want to have Ministers appearing before this House today, we must have a parliamentary system because that is the system through which we can have Ministers coming to this House. The President could have just said that we turn the whole thing by changing the Constitution to go fully parliamentary. That would have made a lot of sense. Or, we can stick to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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