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    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Today, I decided to shift from my place to be near the Mover of the Motion before this august House. I support Hon. Bashir on the Motion before the House. There are a number of issues in the Constitution that require to be attended to. There was a lot of agitation and activism from various bodies which was put into this Constitution. It thus needs a sober mind now to be looked into as it is being moved. Hon. Temporary Speaker, if you look at the constituencies that are enlisted as protected constituencies, as has been said by my colleague earlier, there is no way one can go back and say that a certain constituency does not exist due to lack of the threshold of the population required for it to exist. When it was being done, the initiators of the same did not consider the future of this country. It has become a norm where each and almost every Member is rushing to create a sub-county, so that it will be created as a constituency at the end of the day. People think that a sub-county these days is equivalent to a constituency, which is not the case. In some cases, the population does not allow. We need to consider the contradictions in the Constitution as it is. There are a number of contradictions which are there, especially when it involves the characters of the citizens, the existence of the constituencies, the manner in which they were created, and how citizens are supposed to be beneficiaries of this Constitution. The Constitution is not cast in stone, it is supposed to be dynamic to the extent that it should be solving the problems that reflect the needs of the people and not just activism. I, therefore, support. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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