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    "id": 174509,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keter",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Energy",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Cheruiyot Keter",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also wish to join my other colleagues in supporting this very important Motion which we are about to adopt this afternoon. Constitution making in this country has been the talk since the time some of us were in school but today, I believe that come next year, we will have a new Constitution. We can only achieve that if the new team which has been mandated today will spearhead it without their political affiliation. They should have the hearts of Kenyans in their minds so that we can move ahead. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to say that we can review the new Constitution, even within a month. I do not see any sense when we say that we can do it for 15 months or two years. If the leadership of this country, that is the President, Prime Minister and us, can come together as we have done in the last two days, then we can make the Constitution without any problem. So, it is high time we pushed this country to the next level by being honest and transparent. What we saw yesterday was because some few of us wanted to make a list and purport it to have come from various political parties. I want to thank the Back-Bench and some of our colleagues for saying \"no\". The time to be transparent is now and it has to come from Parliament. We should not hide. Some of us who were in the Ninth Parliament saw what happened. We were here up to midnight and we went out divided. We went out and said that we wanted a new Constitution. We were cheating Kenyans and ourselves. So, I want to say to my colleagues: Thank you so much. Let us be honest and transparent. The fundamental work of the Parliamentary Select Committee is to select people who will serve in some of the Commissions which will be formed. I want to remind the Committee to be honest and transparent enough. If they are not going to be transparent, whatever list of the Commissioners you will bring to Parliament for approval will be rejected. We want to adopt the names. You should be mindful of geographical and tribal factors in Kenya, when you are making that list. So, we should spend a few hours to approve the list and forward it to the President in consultations with the Prime Minister. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not want to take much of the time because we still have the Adjournment Motion before us. We may also have time to talk about other issues. Otherwise, I support this Motion and say: Thank you."
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