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    "id": 819929,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I hope you will add me one more minute. First, to me the petition is constitutional because it is asking if necessary amendments can be made to Articles 137 and 142 of the Constitution. So you cannot say it is unconstitutional. But it raises fundamental issues of procedure. Really, what should constitute a petition to this House? Hon. Speaker, as you rightly put it, Members are representatives of the people. Instead of bringing a petition of this nature, one would have expected Hon. Ouda to use his mandate and responsibility in the House to bring a constitutional amendment that he is praying for, so that the people of Kenya can have opportunity to debate it. Now, as you put it, this is wasting the committee’s time to go and look at this petition and then initiate another process which, again, will require public participation to amend the Constitution. I think the time of the committee and of Parliament could have been used differently. I just want to say, looking at this petition, Kenya is not an island. We are not isolated. This presidential system is borrowed elsewhere. How does it happen in America? I want to speak as the chairman of Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). I heard Hon. Duale, the Leader of the 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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