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    "id": 186339,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will be very brief because I stand to support, and many of the comments that I would have made have already been made by my colleagues. I would like to raise the issue of political goodwill that my colleague has just spoken about. This House has no excuse to delay this process. We have no excuse because we are in a Grand Coalition Government. It would be very unfortunate if political intrigues would come into the path of the constitution making process. I would like this House to be put on notice that Kenyans are not going to allow us, this time round, to play politics with the issue of constitution making. We know that, already, issues of succession and the debate on 2012 elections have began. We must be cognisance of the fact that 2012 elections will not be based so much on political parties, but on whether this Tenth Parliament would have delivered a new Constitution. The Members of Parliament who are sincere to their people in the promises that they made--- We made a promise that this Tenth Parliament would deliver a new Constitution. I would like us to take the issue of the constitution seriously, and remove personalities from this issue. Let us look at this issue of a Constitution as a collective responsibility of the Tenth Parliament and not about individuals or any interest. I really call upon the civil society, who want to be part of this constitution making process, to take a different role this time of keeping this Parliament in check. They should be filling these public galleries every time we are discussing the Constitution making, to look at who would be playing politics with this issue. It is no longer an issue of politics but an issue of transforming this nation. With those few remarks, I support."
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