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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in supporting the Motion, I would want to say that as a Committee we deemed it necessary, as a House, to sit together to understand the Constitution better. We promulgated the Constitution on 27th August, this year. As the English men and women say: “The proof of the pudding is in the eating”. We have come to a moment of the eating of the pudding that we made. It is important for us that as we eat the pudding we all understand its contents. Implementation is very core for us. I just want to refer to Article 261 of the Constitution in Chapter18. The core of it is that it requires us, as a House, to implement certain legislation within a given timeframe under the Sixth Schedule. If we do not do that, then we will have a complicated procedure where we must raise two-thirds of the House to extend the period prescribed in respect of any of the matters that need to be enacted. If we do not do that, then Parliament will be dissolved. Because we do not want to put the country in a crisis, it is important for us to carry all the Members of Parliament together. Therefore, we need to be very clear about timelines. What are the issues that have 30 days period? For instance now we have a matter that has only 22 days and there are other matters that have 90 days; others have one year and five years. So, we will focus a lot especially on issues that we need to get together and on mechanisms that we can employ to shorten that time. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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