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    "id": 686247,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Thank you for giving me this chance, Hon. Deputy Speaker. As Members of Parliament, we are vested with the authority of making laws in this country. Nobody can run away with that responsibility. Secondly, I also agree that the reason we came up with this document is because of a negotiated agreement after so many bad things happened in this country. However, there is something that people must understand. As much as some people had so many problems with the IEBC, others did not. We have agreed that they should go. They must also understand that there are Members of this House and others who are not within this House, who are not happy with some of the recommendations that have been included in Report, especially the one on party- hopping. You cannot simply tell us that because your interest in the IEBC issue has been secured, other Members’ interests cannot be secured. If this document will not be amended, we will throw it out. Since the Senate has passed it, we will go to mediation and the problems that we have with this document will be sorted out there. You cannot tell us to consult. Who are we going to consult? Are we going to consult the oracles? This Report has been tabled in the House. Therefore, we should either throw it out or we amend and pass it. It is not an issue of one personality who has a problem with the IEBC whose interests must be secured. The interests of the members of the public must also be secured. They are the same. No one is above the law. All of us are equal before the law. Let us not talk about consultations. Let us agree on whether or not we will amend this document. I wonder whether it is not amendable. This is not the Bible. It is not cast in stone. I wonder why people tell us that it is not amendable. Why are we in this House? Why are we debating this Report in the first place if we cannot amend it? The Constitution, under Articles 94 and 95, states that Members of Parliament have the power to amend the Constitution. This is not the Constitution. These are just bound pieces of paper. You cannot tell us that we cannot amend this Report. Let us talk sense."
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