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    "id": 1300363,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I am well guided and as they say, brevity is the soul of wit, I will abide by your ruling. As the National Dialogue that has been ongoing for some time demands for time, they must listen to each and every Kenyan. I was shocked when they wrote me a letter that I should not appear yet I am an ordinary Kenyan and a leader. You can imagine if they decline a whole Senator to appear, how will the m ama mboga or boda boda appear before the Committee? If there are issues that will need Parliamentary intervention, that report should come to the Floor of the House. We are not worried. You know, there was the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI One). This can be a possibility of BBI Two. Those of us, who have the privilege of being learned friends, know that the Constitution is not cast in stone. We can amend it at any time to improve it. When we were passing the Constitution, there was general agreement that 70 per cent is good and 30 per cent is bad. We said that we would come back and look back and at the 30 per cent. I hope that when that time comes to make those decisions, no one will throw the baby and the bad water away. I urge the Committee on National Dialogue to invite me. I have one of the Solomonic wisdom; the silver bullet in unlocking where this Country should go on issues of extension of the presidential term, electoral justice, devolution, and the role of the"
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