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    "id": 89968,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will be very brief. The effective date, no doubt, will be tomorrow 27th. The moment the Constitution is promulgated, it becomes the law of the land and it will emphatically, in Schedule VI, Clause 13, be decreeing that Members of Parliament be sworn in on the same day. We cannot extend the day to mean 24 hours stretching it to the next day. The “effective date” means 27th. Immediately the new Constitution is promulgated, 27th will begin at midnight and will end tomorrow midnight. Therefore, if we hold any sitting thereafter, we will begin by subverting this very Constitution. We are conscious that tomorrow there will be festivities and we have no intention of disrupting them. This Motion can be cured by amending it for this Parliament to sit at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow, so that we are sworn in within the effective date. We also support the promulgation of the new Constitution. I am aware that there is a colleague ready to do that, but we are urging him to rule that the Motion as it stands is"
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