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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, last Friday, all of us were witnesses to a momentous occasion, a landmark occasion, historic in every sense, when our country was able to witness the promulgation of a new Constitution, ushering us to, indeed, a completely new Republic – the second Republic. We were all there. We had been made careful, as the House Business Committee, to make sure that every hon. Member had a prime place to sit. I hope that hon. Members were not grossly inconvenienced. I, in fact, do recall that we got a report that we were all to get into a bus. We got there even ahead of the Cabinet Members. They came later to find hon. Members seated. It was historic and celebrations have been going on, including only last evening. I want to thank hon. colleagues who accepted my invitation last evening to continue honouring Kenyans and God for what Kenya has gone through. The image of this country has literally gone to the highest possible level. Owing to that, I am informed that the list of attendance to the forthcoming Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) conference has quadrupled. Originally, before the Referendum, they thought that this country would witness certain occurrences of a type that nobody would want to witness. All those prophets of doom were proved wrong and because of that, we have over 1,000 members of the CPA coming to attend this edition of CPA. That is a tremendous tribute to this country. The timing of this conference is opportune. In fact, I call it a continuation of the celebrations. The whole of the Commonwealth is coming to celebrate with Kenya. This is why we need a nine day break. If we are breaking for nine days only, we do not need to discuss the Motion of Adjournment for more than three hours. After the nine days, as soon as we come back, I want to call upon Party Leaders to make sure that we get the 27 Members. The House Business Committee will be proposing that we follow the tradition of having 27 Members to sit as the oversight committee of this House with regard to implementation. I know that there is always a bit of jostling here due to party lists. I hope that we can agree so that when we meet on 21st, the first thing we should do is to agree on the list of 27 Members, so that we move on and implement this Constitution. Those are the reasons that I can advance in support of this Motion. I am sure that hon. Members also require this break to go to their constituencies and celebrate. That is because we were all in Nairobi and we did not get time to go home. I think it is good that we spread the good story. I know that"
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