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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "To our very good colleagues, the female hon. Members, there was no single amendment on the Order Paper from them. Hon. Speaker, I want to say this for free that the amendments that I brought here were crafted by top Muslim lawyers in Kenya. The Catholic Church should go back and talk to its lawyers and read the Bill. But that, again, lies with the President. I hope the Bill now leaves Parliament and the recourse is with the President. Hon. Speaker, the other issue is what I saw in the headline of one of the daily papers - The People Daily - where the Speaker of the Senate, my good friend and serious founder Member of the party I belong to within the Coalition, and the Senator for Busia, were casting serious aspersions on the Chair and hon. Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Kshs.80 million they allocated in the Budget for us to get experts to review the Constitution. Hon. Speaker, in my opinion, it is unheard of - and I might be wrong - but from the little experience I have gained being in Parliament, it is unheard of for a Speaker of another House to criticize the functions of what the Committees have done and, more so, through the media. It is also unheard of for a Senator of another House to stand in a political rally and, again, criticize the work of another House. Hon. Speaker, I have nothing against the Senate, but I think there should be decorum and respect. It will always be expected that the Chair, as the hon. Speaker of this Assembly, will not criticize the leadership and what goes on in that House. I am sure that the Budget and Appropriations Committee under the chairmanship of hon. Mutava Musyimi, brought the report to convince the whole nation, the National Treasury and all the stakeholders. More than ever, I will stand to be counted that, after the experts review our Constitution and they do a cost- benefit analysis, we can come together as a country, both sides of Parliament; the Opposition and the Government and all the political leadership and have a national dialogue conference."
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