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    "id": 186330,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/186330/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, could you protect me from Mr. Orengo? He is saying that I have just come while I was here when he was seconding the Motion. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to support this Bill. I congratulate the Minister because if you look at the Bill, a lot has been taken care of. This gives us another opportunity. An opportunity which has been squandered by previous Parliaments, particulary the last Parliament, which had all the opportunity to give Kenyans a new Constitution that Kenyans had longed for, for several years. We know we had a good Constitution at Independence. Kenya's Constitution, at Independence, was one of the best. It took care of the interests of many people and many communities in this country. Unfortunately with time, because of selfish interests of many leaders and various groups in this country, that Constitution has been badly mutilated. It was changed over time. Several amendments have been made. If one would ask the founding fathers of this country to rise from their graves and look at the Constitution we have today, some of them will not believe it. Although I know some of them who were party to these amendments would still be happy. That is what has caused us problems. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have made efforts to review our Constitution comprehensively. In the last Parliament, we had this big crowd at the Bomas of Kenya. We were there to do the job we were supposed to in regard to amending our Constitution. The crowd gave its August 6, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2419 proposals. A good number of us were members of that crowd. Several drafts were made after the Bomas conference. We had the Bomas Draft, the draft from Naivasha, another one from Kilifi and another from Wako. All those were amendments of the so called Bomas Draft which we have today. The drafts are also with us in this country. Some of them are very good, in fact, most of them. If you look at what we have in those drafts, they take the interests of Kenyans into account. They were proposed by Kenyans. The information in them was proposed by experts, most of whom were Kenyans. They were proposed by the Wanjikus whom we wanted. However, I remember hon. Moi telling Kenyans that the Wanjiku way was not the best. But if you look at those drafts, we have actually gone back the Moi way. I would say that the Wanjiku approach was not the best. However,"
}