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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "This Bill was arrived at as a result of very extensive consultations. I remember that there were consultations at Windsor Hotel. There were consultations in Parliament when the Ligale Report was brought, and it is part of this Bill. There were very extensive consultations in Naivasha for over two days. That particular workshop was attended by Members of two Committees of this House, namely, the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and the Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC). In that particular workshop, we had representatives of the Kenya Law Reform Commission, the Office of the Attorney-General and the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). The Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) was represented by the Chairman, a few other Commissioners and the Secretary. The defunct Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission (IIBRC) was also represented by the Chairman and one other Commissioner. The Office of the President and the Office of the Prime Minister were also represented. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what I am trying to allude to is the fact that this Bill was arrived at as a result of very extensive consultations. Therefore, what one would expect are very few negative comments on this particular Bill. As one of the people who attended the workshop and participated in the deliberations, I want to report that all the issues that were agreed upon in Naivasha were as a result of consensus. We never voted on any issue. Therefore, the Bill enjoyed extensive and wide support. However, I have gone through the Bill before the House, and I am uncomfortable with a number of the provisions contained therein. I want to highlight some of those issues, so that they can be looked into, first, by the Committee since I believe that there will be a Committee which will look into this Bill. I am confident that the Chair of the CIOC will call for a meeting to look at this Bill. It does not have to be the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, if the Committee’s membership has refused to behave. If the Committee’s membership has refused to take this country forward, other parliamentarians will do so."
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