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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kericho County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Kemei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this general debate on the proposal by H.E. the President to Parliament to consider amending the Constitution. Many Members have spoken about the same. I want to start by appreciating what the Members have said. The constitutional amendment is not something new. The first Kenyan Constitution has been amended severally. Even the USA has amended its constitution around 27 times, and India over 90 times. This shows the importance of amending the Constitution is actually to adjust provisions that are inadequate and to add to that shows that amendments are necessary to correct the national weaknesses and, of course, to adopt the changes that come with it. In this case Hon. Temporary Speaker, just the way other Members have spoken, there was the BBI that, of course, had some good part of it. I remember the President looked at it and spoke about it where he said there is a good side of it and there are those areas that needed to be corrected. However, it never saw the light of the day. So, in this case Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want in a very special way to appreciate the fact that it is coming to us to look at and speak to it. The four issues that His Excellency the President has forwarded to us to speak to are very important. To start with the NG-CDF and NGAAF, I want to appreciate the Members who have been here before. They have worked hard using the NG-CDF and NGAAF. Hon. Ndindi Nyoro, in a few minutes, told us what he has done with NG-CDF. I want to congratulate him for that and many other Members. However, I was only in a way unhappy and disappointed 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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