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    "id": 229654,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, very much Mr. Speaker, Sir, for an opportunity to contribute and support the Presidential Address and touch on a few things. The President has shown the way that we need to dialogue and address the issue of constitutional reform. There have been statements emanating from all directions, including one from His Excellency the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs last week that we can give the country a Constitution between now and the next elections. I do not think so. I believe that we must first delink the issue of giving Kenyans a new Constitution from any elections be they this year's elections or any other elections in future so that it has its own proper time table and so that Kenyans can dialogue and agree. I want to suggest that since the cornerstone of our disputes on the Constitution has been the issue of the centre of State authority, it might be desirable for this House to find out that it is necessary to have a referendum for Kenyans to decide whether we want a Presidential system or a Parliamentary system. Thereafter, it will be very easy to craft the Constitution around that issue."
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