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    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to second the Motion that has been moved by my very able Chairperson and senior, Hon. George Gitonga Murugara. This is a Report of the Joint Committee of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and its equivalent in the Senate on the NADCO. The Chairperson has taken us through the historical background of where we came from up to where we are in terms of what transpired in NADCO. He started from the beginning where we had the bipartisan team that was jointly co-chaired by our Chairperson and Senior Counsel Otiende Amollo. I also participated in that team. I want to be very brief and confirm the sentiments by Senior Counsel Otiende Amollo, that there was some laxity by our sister Committee in the Senate to attend meetings. Initially, as a Committee, this prompted us to consider the NADCO Report without the participation of the Senate Committee. That is what produced the Report that was tabled in the House in October. I want to confirm that we agreed 98 per cent on the issues in that Report. Hon. Otiende Amollo alluded to three Members who had divergent opinions on a few issues. Therefore, in enhancing our right to hold divergent opinions and constitutional right of freedom of expression, I do not think there will be a problem if Members are allowed to refer to the original Report by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. Hon. Temporary Speaker, in this Report, we separated the constitutional amendments that require a referendum in order to be enacted from those that do not. Under Article 255 of the Constitution, there are different routes to constitutional amendments. One of them is the parliamentary initiative, where we do not require a referendum. The other is the popular initiative, where on particular clauses and articles of the Constitution, you require a referendum so as to amend."
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