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    "content": "Prime Minister. How long are we going to work on crash programme? For how long are we going to sit here at the wee hours of the night to do something that we ought to have done 12 months ago? The constitutional implementation process is a very difficult exercise. However, we have no option because Kenyans expect us to domesticate it. We take all the compliments you have expressed. We have also gone an extra mile under difficult circumstances to make sure these Bills are passed. We had to go through two Bills within four days. In fact, I want to thank the membership of the Defence and Foreign Relations Committee for interrogating these Bills. During interrogation of these Bills, we made sure that there was public participation. I can see the Minister for Finance, Mr. Haji is here with us. I can also see the hon. Attorney General, hon. Kimunya and my good professor. We want you to go back and organize your house, so that we do away with this crash programme. If that happens, the quality of the Bills that we pass here will greatly be enhanced and the hon. Members will legislate in a very conducive atmosphere without straining themselves and the staff of the Kenya National Assembly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, I know we are in the last leg of the life of the Tenth Parliament. This is the time when we really need to bond more. I will not want to do the Shikuku way of saying, “look at the four corners of the building”. That is not the way we want to do it. The only way we can appreciate our togetherness is if we do what we are required to do on time. Do it procedurally and lessen the task and the burden of those who you expect to work with you. Look at the staff here, they have worked very hard for those three days. This evening most of us would have gone to our villages, but because as hon. M.Y. Haji and hon. Githae have rightly pointed out, what we are doing also will greatly contribute to our national well being as a country. I want to say thank all hon. Members for your support. We have enjoyed every speaker. It was a learning process for us. We have enjoyed every bit of your participation. All the amendments that you brought forward have been highly appreciated. I thank all the Members that we interrogated. I hope collectively we have passed Bills that will ensure that we are safer, have functioning institutions and we have put in place legislative mechanism for posterity for today, tomorrow and for our children."
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