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    "id": 56826,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/56826/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to also acknowledge that there are certain things we cannot do the way we have always done them. Take the question of the next elections. I mention this because the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution that has given us this report has had occasion to pronounce itself on this matter. The Commission says in its own view that the next election should be held in August, 2012. I want to associate myself with the sentiments of the CIC that, indeed, the next election should be held in August, 2012. There are arguments that may or may not be valid that because transitional clauses of the Constitution talk about this Parliament completing its term, therefore, we must remain here until the time when we were sworn into office. To me the debate is not what the transitional clauses talk about. To me it is the acknowledgement that the final consummation of the birth of this second Republic; the ultimate baptism of the second Republic of Kenya will be concluded through the next election and we must give the people of this country the earliest possible opportunity to undertake that ceremony of the final baptism and put that seal on the consummation of this second Republic."
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