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    "id": 180985,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdikadir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 29 of the Bill be amended by deleting Subclauses (6) and (7) and substituting therefor the following:- (6) If the National Assembly fails to approve the draft Constitution in accordance with Subsections (4) and (5), a joint meeting between the Parliamentary Select Committee and the Committee of Experts shall be convened by the chair to consider the issue or issues and to make recommendations to the National Assembly. (7) In considering issues not approved by the National Assembly, the meeting convened under subsection (6) shall invite the Reference Group to make recommendations on how the issue or issues may be resolved. (8) The meeting convened under subsection (7) shall be held in consecutive sessions over a period of not more than 14 days and shall be chaired by the chair of the Committee of Experts. (9) Upon decision of the meeting, the Committee of Experts shall, within seven days, revise the draft Constitution and submit a report and the new draft Constitution to the National Assembly. (10) The National Assembly shall approve the draft Constitution and submit it to the Attorney-General for publication. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, in holding the hearings, the Committee realised that the most critical criticism this Bill faced is that this process was particularly controlled or run by parliamentarians or \"politicians\". We heard time and again, how the process had been locked up so 3244 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 4, 2008 that it was only Members of Parliament or politicians who were to run it. We have allowed a mechanism to create or facilitate formalised consultation process to give a window to organised groups to inter-phase with the process so that they can input or in the event of deadlock, as indicated, they would know, how to break it. Essentially, what this amendment and a further amendment down the line proposes to do is to allow members of civil society, religious groups or different interested Kenyans to be part of the process. Really, this is a process for the people of Kenya."
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