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    "id": 85344,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/85344/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 391,
        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am going to make a very specific plea to all the Members of Parliament and Kenyans. We have gone through a very difficult process to come to a point where we have accepted a new Constitution. Please, let us not become technical about how we will implement it. We want to move the country forward. We have agreed that this is our new Constitution. In my understanding, the Attorney-General, whether in the new or the old Constitution remains the Chief Legal Advisor of the Government. What is being propagated to me sounds as if he will exist on his own with the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution. That cannot be sound jurisprudence. Now that it has been tabled here that the Cabinet has approved this approach, why should we, as Members of Parliament, want to complicate it by simply saying; “No, that one should be the one doing it and not the other one.” If we have issues with the content, is that not what we should raise rather than argue on who and how it has been presented? I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. If you look at the schedules, programmes and timelines, you will find unless we are deliberately saying that we do not want this Constitution to come into effect properly and, therefore, we are seeking the courts to dissolve Parliament because that is what could happen if somebody goes to court to say that Parliament has failed to pass the necessary laws and, therefore, should be sent home for a new Parliament to come and do so--- If that is what we are saying, we should be plain. However, if, indeed, we want to implement the new Constitution, let us do so."
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