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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " For the simple reason that when you look at this Memorandum, you realise that Kenyans have not understood how Parliament operates or what stages a Bill goes through. That is First Reading, Second Reading, Third Reading and also what happens when a Bill is presented to the President for assent. A colleague of mine said yesterday that we used to have open days in Parliament where people used to be taken through the processes of a Bill. This is a very important decision that has been made on a very important Bill in this country. You know very well how emotive and controversial this Bill was before we went on recess. There are people in the country, our voters, who believe that this Bill is becoming law. They believe that this Bill is going to be implemented. Indeed, this is an unprecedented situation because it is the first time since I came to this Parliament - ten years ago - that a President has deleted every clause in a Bill. I am not sure whether he has deleted even the title of the Bill. We need to check that in the Memorandum. It is unprecedented and it has never happened. In the last ten years, we are used to having a Memorandum that would come to the House and the President could have issues with one, two or three clauses. This is the first time that a whole Bill has been deleted. What does that mean, Hon. Speaker? If you ask me as a legislator here, because you have to raise two-thirds in numbers of Members to undo what he has 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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