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    "id": 1523422,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1523422/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": "should now recognise the Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) we have in Kenya as legislators and be accorded everything, including privileges that go with the legislators or Members of Parliament. Unfortunately, we rejected this. The Committee further recommended that the draft Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2023 by the Multi-Sectoral Working Group on implementation of the two- thirds gender principle be revised by deleting Clause 5 proposing to implement the gender top up within 30 days of coming into force of the proposed Act. The proposals by Multi-Sectoral Working Group were that 30 days after passage of the law, then the gender top up would be implemented. The justification for the refusal is that the proposal is too ambitious and cannot be implemented in the current Parliament. It will be neater to implement it during the next general election. The Committee recommended that proposals to amend the Constitution as contained in the NADCO Report and Multi-Sectoral Working Group Report be reduced into three Bills as follows: Firstly, a Bill to amend the Constitution to entrench the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), the Parliamentary Oversight Fund and the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) respectively in the Constitution. Hon. Members of Parliament, you will recall that we also have a draft Bill trying to entrench the three Funds in the Constitution. This is entrenching the three Funds in the Constitution separately from other proposed amendments."
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