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    "id": 85308,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice President and Minister for Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am aware that the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs is in the House, but I want to confirm to this House that this is a matter that has engaged our minds. Your own mind has been applied to it substantially. This is very interesting. It is a very exciting time in the history of our country; we are having to implement a completely new Constitution. We have some set deadlines. I have no doubt in my mind that if we were to await the setting up of the Commission which will then consult with the Attorney-General before the very First Reading of this Bill, then we would be dead before we begin. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the reality of the situation. We are being faced with a chicken and egg situation. What is before the House is just the plain First Reading of the Bill that seeks to establish this Commission. This is the all-important Commission without which the Work of implementation of the Constitution cannot seriously begin. Therefore, if it was the case that the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs was moving the second reading--- What will happen is that the Clerks-at-the-Table will simply read it. If it is that my colleagues are offended by the word “Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs” I want to confirm to them that the Cabinet consulted extensively over this matter. I am sure the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs might want to confirm what I am saying; there is even a document between the Attorney-General and the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs. The interest the Cabinet has is to expedite this process. My worry, even as I speak before you, is that we will not be able to put in place the Judicial Service Commission by the 27th of this month if we will have to debate some of these technicalities. Even if the words “Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs” were not there, the Clerks-at-the-Table would read out the Bill in order for us to move and enable the oversight committee to be able to make sure that this matter is brought expeditiously before the House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg of all of us to be able to see the challenge. If we begin by violating the timelines, which we are bound to do now, the country will not understand. So, that is what I wanted to observe with regard to this very learned approach by my good friend, Dr. Khalwale. He and I know that we have actually been discussing this matter extensively and some progress has to be made."
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