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    "id": 34045,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, pursuant to Standing Order No. 36(4) I stand to make the following Statement. Let me start by commending hon. Members for remaining steadfast and zealous in executing their mandate of handling House business in a vibrant and non-partisan manner. Recently, we have been treated to both prime time and headline news in our local media houses, highlighting impeding failure by this House to deliver key constitutional Bills as per the 26th August, 2011, deadline. Some Kenyans feel that our Constitution implementation conveyor belt is rolling, but churning out very few legislative proposals. On this, let me assure Kenyans that our key agencies namely, the State Law Office, the Kenya Law Reform Commission, the Commission on the Implementation of the Constitution and the line Ministries and, indeed, this House are alive to these concerns and are seized of this process. Let us not, because of fear, submit to rushed processes where some Kenyans may feel sidelined and slighted. The House Business Committee is on top of this agenda. Our Members will burn the midnight oil if it comes to that as we have done before and deliver on the deadline. The challenge is indeed surmountable. Next week, the House has prioritized debate on the following constitutional Bills which are at the Second Reading stage: The Commission on Administrative Justice, Bill No.21 of 2011; the Kenya National Human Rights Commission Bill No.22 of 2011; the National Gender and Equality Commission Bill, Bill No.23 of 2011. I want to say that hon. Members will have received notice from the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Development to attend a workshop in Mombasa. I am told that some of the hon. Members have already left in order to be able to gather consensus, so that when we come to the House on Tuesday we shall be able to move with the necessary speed. Finally, the House Business Committee will meet on Tuesday, 9th August, 2011, to consider business for the next week and if need be, consider the important question of having to extend sitting time in order to beat some of these deadlines."
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