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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maalim Farah",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to contribute. We are going to make very fundamental changes into our system of Government that will impact on generations to come. It is only fair that we give it the utmost thought. We should not think about the political expediency of the day but think about it for posterity. I had said this somewhere else. I was in this House in the 7th Parliament and I wrote a new Constitution. I said that it must come from w anjiku, the ordinary people out there. I was in the opposition. At that time, our Head of State, the late President Moi, wondered why 222 educated and elected leaders of this country would surrender the role of thinking for the future of this country to somebody out there in the streets who is either roasting maize or doing a small thing there. I had a problem with that. I never thought that would bite me again and come back to us. I am convinced that we made a mistake. We should have listened in parts but not in totality to that late sage’s ideas. None of the American’s 37 constitutional amendments that were done in the United States of America (USA) required a referendum. I am convinced by and large that this House has the capacity and powers to amend the Constitution and do a lot of work in it except in matters that touch on very pertinent issues in Article 255 of the Constitution. The Constitution that we have today, in terms of whether the governance would be a presidential system or 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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