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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Olago",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there will be delimitation of boundaries for constituencies and wards in the Fifth Schedule. This is a matter that should be handled very carefully. While the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and Administration of Justice was tasked with the responsibility of looking at the Ligale Report and making decisions on what needs to be done, the Committee went to great length and took a lot of pain to come up with a report. The report was debated here and you will recall how Members of Parliament were divided on how to treat the Ligale Report. When this Bill comes to the Committee Stage and amendments are introduced, I urge my colleagues to look at the provisional schedule in a way that will not bring us again to argue and argue and argue but in a way that simply informs the Commission on what to do to the Ligale Report. That way, we shall avoid having to argue, shout and fight on the Floor of the House here once again. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to conclude by addressing issues of amendments that may come in this Bill. Indeed, from the remarks of hon. Members since yesterday, it is clear that there will be amendments that will be proposed on the Floor of the House. How these amendments will be handled is going to be a cause of concern not just to this House but to the nation. I say so because the only avenue that Kenyans and interested parties have in having an input in the Bill is to forward their views through the Committee on Legal Affairs and Administration of Justice. In the absence of a working relationship in that Committee, it becomes impossible for the public to have their input but there is a way out. Being a Member of that Committee, I do know that the problem is to handle the issue of lack of confidence. The issue that we are handling now in this Bill has nothing to do with the chairmanship of that Committee. I wish to urge my colleagues in that Committee that for purposes of addressing issues arising from this Bill, let us forget issues to do with a vote of no confidence. Let us come back together and deal with this Bill. If need be, the issue of lack of confidence can be handled later. If we do that, then all the amendments that hon. Members may propose will then come to the Committee and the Committee will have a chance to formulate them in an orderly version and bring them to the House. If that does not happen, then each Member of this House is going to come up with independent proposals and we are going to get into a quagmire and to a stalemate. If we are not very careful, this Bill may either not see the light of day or what we are going to come up may be so different from this one, that we may wonder if it is the Bill that came from the Minister. With those few remarks, I wish to say that personally, I will have amendments that I will bring but I will not disclose them now. Thank you."
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