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    "id": 789561,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for reading that Petition. It is within the right of every citizen to bring a petition. In fact, this Petition needs that petitioner to be given more time and very good recommendations made. Hon. Nassir is the son of a former Minister. His father was a very tough politician. At one time, he said: “ Wapende wasipende.” From the way he is talking, that Mohamed Sheikh from Wajir must be given three minutes, it reminds me of wapende wasipende. We should not run the House like that. Tomorrow, another Member from Migori, Garissa, Nairobi or Mombasa will bring a petition. This is a platform provided for by the Constitution. Maybe he does not know the law. There may be many other people who think like him. I will be very happy if the Committee interrogates that Mohamed Sheikh and does a very good report that becomes a record of this House so that nobody else in the subsequent Parliaments will go back and bring the same Petition. The idea of a Member saying that we deal with it in three minutes is not possible. In a committee, by the time you read the prayers, the three minutes are over. It is the 11th Parliament and this 12th Parliament that introduced the provisions of petition. You have even seen people bring memoranda to the committees of the House in various stages. There are people who send emails. They bring any sort of document when the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act says you must swear an affidavit. Still, at times we look at those documents. I agree with the Members that this is not a very good petition. It is misplaced. As Hon. Pukose said, let us not use powers we enjoy under the Constitution to deal with the citizens to demean them. Maybe that guy used his time and energy to do a petition to Parliament and walked from his place all the way to the Clerk’s Office. The Legal Department has looked at it. That is why the Speaker is under obligation to read it to the House. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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