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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, times change and this is very important for us as Members of Parliament to note. Let me start by saying this because people would be asking themselves why we are engaging in this debate this evening. Let me remind my colleagues and Hon. Members that under Article 95 of the Constitution, this House has three very key responsibilities. As envisaged in Article 95(1), we are representatives of the constituencies. Under Article 95(2), we deliberate on and resolve issues of concern to those people. Under Article 95(3), we enact legislation. The issues that are being canvassed at the National Dialogue Committee are issues of concern to the people we represent under Article 95(1) of the Constitution. It is also true, as it has been eloquently put by Hon. Ichung’wah, that whatever comes out of the talks is likely to find its way to the Floor of this House in one form or another. Therefore, we shall be enacting legislation with regard to the outcome of those talks. This House is in its right place to cease this matter at this early stage."
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