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    "id": 175124,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I also want to support it with amendments. 4156 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES December 16, 2008 We are embarking on a very important national exercise and it is important that we learn from the past mistakes. We have not been able to deliver a new Constitution for this country because most times, we do not take time to engage in consulting and building consensus. Now, we should not repeat the same mistake. If we want to succeed this time, we should follow the example of what we did in the amendment that we have just passed by building consensus in advance so that we can carry all the people with us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is important to know that if there is consensus in this House, then it will also be easy in the referendum that will follow when we have a new Constitution. If there is no consensus in this House, because these are the same leaders who carry the people outside there, it will be very difficult to deliver a new Constitution. In that light, it was wrong for these names to be picked by whatever caucus that picked them without proper consultations amongst the Members of this House. In that light, we need to pass it with appropriate amendments. In any case, it is wrong also to pack a Select Committee of Parliament with the Cabinet."
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