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    "id": 175126,
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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": "Looking at the past, the Kenya National Assembly, which is the representative body of Kenya, must lead in the Constitution-making process. If we let the Executive, of which I am a Member, to be overly represented in the Select Committee, then we will see the Executive driving the constitutional review process. Looking at the proposed names, you will see 12 Cabinet Ministers, four Assistant Ministers and two whips. That makes them 18, which makes them the majority in the Committee. That gives room for the Executive to manipulate the constitutional review process again. We will then be unable to reach the destination we want to reach. Let us have proper representation. Let us also have the Back Bench properly represented so that the suspicions that come--- The Executive may be having good intentions, but there is always that suspicion that some agenda is being set. That is why when we were debating on the Bill that we have just passed, we said that we did not want to see the process being controlled and manipulated from outside. That is why proper consultations should have taken place so that everybody is on board in arriving at the composition of this very important Select Committee. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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