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    "id": 1211758,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "The other technicality raised—I am happy Hon. John Mbadi spoke before us—is that the President, pursuant to the judgement of the Supreme Court on the BBI all the way from the High Court through to the Court of Appeal, is that the President cannot initiate a constitutional amendment. We need to distinguish two issues here. Firstly, there are two routes to amending a Constitution. There is a parliamentary route and there is popular initiative route. My careful reading of the BBI judgement is that the President is barred from initiating a popular initiative because that route, as rightly found by the Supreme Court, is the preserve of Wanjiku ."
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