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    "id": 1211522,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1211522/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to give my remarks and comments to what in my view is a proposal from the President. I do not want to imagine that this is the beginning of a process of initiating constitutional changes from him. First, we have heard very many Members in this House castigating what Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance has been doing in terms of the people barazas. There is no rule in this country that says that you cannot have courts of public opinion when speaking to the people of Kenya. Whether the office of the official opposition is there or not, nobody prevents anyone from speaking to the people of Kenya. On my comments to the President’s Memorandum, in my view, he took the BBI proposal, went through it, liked what he saw and he decided that he also wants to give an opinion on it. I do not fault him for that because some of the things he mentions here that were in the BBI are fantastic suggestions that would put this country at a very good place. On the two-thirds gender rule, remember this is on Article 81(b) of the Constitution, but it has never been properly implemented. The Article does not give the meat and specifics of how this should be done in a proper way."
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