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    "id": 846407,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/846407/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I like what the Leader of the Majority Party has said; that he begs to give his views. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, constitutional amendment is a constitutional right that Kenyans have and this Parliament has powers, as bestowed in the Constitution, to amend it. Therefore, we cannot in any way be swayed from exercising that constitutional right. Kenyans need to exercise their rights as enshrined in the Constitution. Therefore, this is an opportunity that Kenyans should not let go. The United States (US) has had 27 amendments on her Constitution. That Constitution was passed around 1787 and by 1789, they introduced the first amendment. Two years after the promulgation of the US Constitution, amendments were introduced. For us to say that we cannot introduce an amendment because we want to have a whole constitutional overhaul 10 years after is actually not doing what tradition demands of us in terms of constitutional amendments. A constitution can be amended any other time because the same constitution gives the people the right to amend it. 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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