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    "id": 846336,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": "The second point is that a piecemeal amendment to the Constitution may end up destroying the architecture and basis of the Constitution 2010. I am saying this taking into account that there are various other initiatives that are in place which intend to amend this Constitution. We have Hon. Kamket’s Bill which I suspect is being processed. There are two or three other petitions which intend to affect the tenure of office of this Parliament, Governors and other elective seats, including one that proposes the extension of the term of the office of the President. We ought to put all these proposals in either an omnibus amendment or have a platform where the nation can dialogue on all the proposed initiatives, including the Building of Bridges Initiative. We do not know what process or result may come out of the Building of Bridges Initiative. I want to support the proposals in the Bill partially. I want to state that in relation to the proposal to amend Article 136 of the Constitution, any proposed amendment must be read together with Article 255 of the Constitution. It says that if you are going to make any amendments that will affect the tenure of office of the President, then you have to go to the referendum. In respect of this, I agree that there is need to stagger our elections, so that our other elective seats elections can take place in December. However, in respect of the election of the office of the President, it should remain in August because the President was gazetted on 31st October 2017. Another President must be in place on 31st of August 2022. The General Elections are proposed to be in December. This will extend the tenure of office of the current President."
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