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    "id": 762599,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murugara",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "Clause 4 seeks to ensure that there is quorum for the Commission while discharging its duties. Here, it was the considered view of the Members that we did not give a specific number. We decided to give a percentage of 50 per cent so that even if membership goes up or down, it remains a percentage. We also considered decision-making where we looked at Article 250 of the Constitution and said that in every constitutional commission, membership ought not to be less than three and not more than nine. That is why we decided that at any instance of decision- making, the membership will not go lower than three. We also looked at Clause 5, where we are trying to clean up the statute. A provision that has been declared unconstitutional needs to be repealed from statute books. It needs to be deleted. Therefore, until when this House considers the same provision and either makes it better, or agrees to leave it out, it remains dead."
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