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    "id": 56903,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 47,
        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was very embarrassed to watch a huge rally in Afraha Stadium, where Kenyans were sitting in tents without food or water. Those were churchmen praying for leaders in this country but not a single Internally Displaced Person (IDP) was prayed for. No single victim of the post-election violence or a family that lost a loved one or a woman who was raped, was prayed for. It is embarrassing that we can go and pray at Afraha Stadium. I hope that when they come back and go to pray at Uhuru Park, they will remember the bombing that occurred during the referendum campaigns and so on, so that they can pray for those victims because people lost their lives. Enough is enough. If it were up to me, the rallies that are being organised would shut down, so that we could address the reform agenda for this country. We have the work and the facilities. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to call upon the Committee to call a two-day retreat, so that we can go and discuss all these Bills, because I have also forwarded them to the Committee. We need to go out there as Parliament, debate them, settle them, come back with a soft copy, publish them and pass them into law. As I have said, we have already finished preparing five Bills, which are also with the Commission. I have challenged the Commission to fast-track those Bills, and they have promised to give us three Bills before the end of April, so that they can also be tabled in this House for passage. That is all I wanted to say, to just give hon. Members the facts. We should remember that the Executive cannot publish any Bill unless that Bill has gone through the CIC. Once the CIC approves the Bills, we take them to the Cabinet in the same week for approval and publication. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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