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    "id": 653842,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/653842/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First of all, let me apologise if you noticed that I was becoming a bit agitated. Actually, I was frustrated because when I took a vote on the first Bill by Kaluma, I did it against my conscience so that I do not pollute the environment for the second Bill. To me, it is a pity that such an important task is given to us as a House by the people of Kenya to execute on their behalf, and we have failed miserably. I know hon. Millie has congratulated us for trying, but we are over 349 Members of Parliament. If we wanted to pass this Bill, we should have done it this afternoon. The lobbying has been going on for over one year. I am not sure that even if you apply Standing Order 62, we are going to get the numbers. If we cannot do it this evening, then we should leave it to the people of Kenya because this House has failed to actualise the two-thirds principle. We need to be ruthlessly honest with each other. This idea of pretending that we support this Bill and we are not, we should just say as a House that we have failed so that the people of Kenya can decide what to do. There is recourse. I remember the court had pronounced itself in terms of the implementation of that particular provision in law. Right now, we should give it to the people of Kenya so that they can decide to go to court and ask for specific performance, failure to which we should go home and have another Parliament to come in and actualise this."
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