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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "sure that the two-thirds threshold is reached. So, the passage of this Bill shall have cost implications given the need for a referendum. So, what am I saying? The Bill cannot be amended by the House and has to be passed as it is without any alteration. Another very key point is that a constitutional amendment Bill cannot be amended. It is either you reject it in totality or you approve it in totality. There will be no amendment that can be brought in any constitutional amendment Bill. It has to be passed as it is without any amendments or alteration whatsoever and in line with the previous ruling by the Speaker. I really want Members of this House, particularly the new Members and even the old Members, to pick the ruling of Speaker Muturi dated 20th August 2015. I have a copy here because this is a House of records. After I finish I can table it. It is a very good ruling that the Speaker made relating to the same Bill in the last Parliament. What the Speaker said about a similar Bill by the Member for Ugenya, Hon. David Ochieng’, is here. In summary, the two issues that the Speaker addressed were that he would not allow any amendment to the Bill proposed by Member for Ugenya or, indeed, any other Member or other four published Bills proposing to amend the Constitution and that the determination as to whether the Bill proposing to amend the Constitution requires the approval by a referendum in terms of Articles 255 and 256 of the Constitution is, therefore, the purview of the Speaker."
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