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    "id": 944908,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/944908/?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",
        "slug": "jeremiah-kioni"
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    "content": "I take this opportunity to say that it is true that the Constitution we have is different from the Bomas Draft and the Kilifi Draft. As I contribute to this Bill, it is good to have it on record that there were many kitchens that the 2010 Constitution went through. The final kitchen seems to have been the one at Naivasha and I was there. For the record, every single word, clause, provision and article, including the commas, were negotiated and agreed upon by the political parties that were represented at Naivasha and the politicians who sat at Naivasha. That was done given the prevailing political environment including the economic environment. That was the time when we were almost losing this country and we needed to salvage it. Some of the difficulties we are undergoing are what people kept picking here and there. It is good to identify the gaps, but they were really informed by the difficulties we were faced with and the circumstances that were there. We had quarrelling communities and people who were almost saying: “If we do not get a new constitution now we would rather cut the country into pieces.” That kind of environment is what dictated the kind of Constitution that we have. I say again for the record that without doubt, there were quite a number of areas that were left for leaders who come thereafter to make them good, improve on them, amend them or delete"
}