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    "id": 863397,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863397/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity you have given me to contribute to this important debate. I want to start by saying that without a doubt, one of the aims of this Bill and it has been mentioned in the memoranda, is to align it to the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. Allow me to say that this is enough evidence that the Constitution still has a lot of work that needs to done. We are not anywhere near completion. We have had many of these pieces of legislation that keep coming and what is clear is that many of our ministries have never taken pain to ensure that the statutes that fall under them are aligned to the Constitution. The 10th, 11th and even now the 12th Parliament did their bit by enacting new legislation to help in the implementation of the Constitution. Without doubt, there are still very many pieces of legislation that still need to be looked into that are still using the language of the old Constitution and terminologies of the old Constitution and offices of the old Constitution. It is therefore important that ministries will do the necessary by making sure that the statutes are brought in line. Having said that, we are dealing with the implementation of the Constitution as Members of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC). One other thing that is clear is, if you go through all the policies of virtually all the ministries, there are still policies that were there before the 2010 Constitution. So, we have a lot of work to do and we are doing it as CIOC and it is unfortunate that it had been given some moment of death in the last Parliament. So, we have a lot of work to do."
}