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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Sabatia",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand to support the Bill and to really say that I think the legalities of it have been very well articulated by both hon. Karua and hon. Orengo. The spirit of it, I think, is what we should really emphasize at this point in time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with the previous speakers, especially, hon. Karua on one 188 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 18, 2008 issue; that, indeed, on the occasion of the signing of this Accord between hon. Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki, there was spontaneous jubilation and relief in the entire country. That was a message that was being given to us by our electors. They said: \"We want peace and stability. We want a nation that is now ready to move forward. A nation that can chart new waters.\" We are charting new territory here. We are laying the foundation to tackle what we were unable to do a few years ago. We were unable to agree on the principle of power sharing previously. We were also unable to agree on the principle of being able to amend some of the contentious issues within our Constitution previously. Indeed, this country went through a very rigorous Referendum process that, perhaps, was the genesis, or one of the core areas that led to the dispute that we saw, and that was triggered off by the election process. We have now laid the foundation and broken new territory. We can now, as a nation, actually start talking about bringing in that new Constitution within 12 months. Indeed, in our mediation team, with the spirit that was at times very prevalent and, indeed, it was prevalent for the better time of it, we were able to say that, in fact, if we work faster, because the country has already done quite a bit of homework on the new Constitution, we can actually deliver a new Constitution to the people of Kenya in less than 12 months. It is a possibility."
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