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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for your ruling on this matter. I am not to be seen to be in disagreement with your ruling. I wish to congratulate you that over a period of very few sittings of this House, you have made several rulings which will go into the annals of this Parliament. I am grateful for the ruling. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion. THAT, this House orders that the publication period of the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill and the National Accord and Reconciliation Bill be reduced from 14 to six days and not five days as appears on the Order Paper. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think the House heard what I said yesterday. Although what I said yesterday is not really part of the records in so far as this Order No.10 is concerned today, I think the House knows the circumstances under which these Bills have been published and are going to be introduced to the House. We need to fast-track these Bills. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is important that we capture the mood of the moment and ensure that the process of healing commences in this nation within a certain legal framework. I urge that the period for publication of these Bills, and their introduction to the House, be reduced from 14 to six days. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think that this is a time in which Parliament can demonstrate that in moments of need and emergency, it can actually generate business and accomplish it within a record time if it is desirous to do so. In fact, several Parliaments before have done exactly that; sometimes for very wrong reasons or very good reasons. I think this time Parliament will be acting for a very good reason. Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I conclude, I think it is important in this country that everybody in the governance structure of this country realises that Parliament is supreme. Before Parliament has passed a Bill into a law, civil servants should be very careful in commenting on what Parliament has not passed."
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