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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, to say that it is premature to talk about the Constitution, somebody is trying to gag this House from working. Let me say that the President has raised certain issues whose answers will now lie in the opening of this document. Hon. Speaker, there are several issues we must look at. We were told: “For this Constitution, just pass it. It is good but only 20 per cent is bad.” In fact, the Principals then told us that they would immediately, after the passage, embark on auditing the bad 20 per cent. I wonder, as a Member for Gem, and the Deputy Leader of Minority Party, how my own leadership can say that when the Senate and governors are agitating for more money - and that requires constitutional amendments--- They say it is good for them but when we say “deal with other issues”, they say it is premature. When we say that we deal with other issues in this document, there is even a safety net. Most of the issues we are talking about require a referendum. So, this House has limited power in most of the issues to do with the Constitution. It is good that even leaders inside and outside Parliament respect the roles and independence of Parliament. Even if we discuss it, at some point, it shall go to the public. Hon. Members were here and they passed a Budget of Kshs.80 million to help the Auditor-General tell us where we are spending unnecessarily. We have said that the political office structure is in itself, one that we cannot afford. As a country, we have said it here every other week. So we only want to request our leaders, whether they are the top Executive or the top Opposition in the country, to leave us alone so that we can do our work as Parliament."
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