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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, for reasons the Vice-President gave when he was proposing this Bill, I support the Motion. I wish to commend him for seeing the wisdom of withdrawing Orders No.12 onwards. May I also take the opportunity to extend our goodwill from this side of the House to you, your Deputy, the Leader of Government Business and the Deputy Leader of Government Business and to express my wish that the goodwill that we are seeing today will be extended in ensuring that Bills are brought in time, published in time and there are no hidden motives in the presentation of Bills. We have a very important task to perform; that is to implement the Constitution to the fullest. The Leader of Government Business occupies a very important position, a position that cannot even be delegated to a backbencher as he purported to do just the other day. I would have expected that in the spirit of the goodwill that he is extending to the House, he would have explained the reasons why he has decided to cede some of the responsibilities of the Leader of Government Business sitting in the House Business Committee. That is an issue that we shall take up when the time comes. For now, we are ready to sit late, extend the sittings of the House to ensure that we meet the timelines set out in the Constitution to ensure that the Constitution process meets the timelines that are set out. We have witnessed great debate between different arms of the Government, between equivalent Ministers in the Office of Deputy Prime Minister, taking positions that are worrying for a Government that is supposed to work as one collective entity and giving positions that are contradictory and therefore, providing fodder for unnecessary public acrimony. I would urge those who sit in the Cabinet, this time round, to think and speak collectively and let Kenyans know that the Government is collectively committed to implementing the new Constitution. I support the Motion."
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