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    "id": 945069,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maoka Maore",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": "There are no barriers created by legislation. So, legislation should not create avenues that are likely to be abused. I remember you were talking about Article 95 of the Constitution about representation of the people. When you are elected as a Member of a Constituency, you are representing everybody there. You represent the poverty if there is poverty. You represent the wealthy, the animals and the interests of all the people who are there. Hata panya ile iko huko na paka . We need to understand that when you are doing a constitution it is a document which should hold us together and not one which can be used and abused by international NGOs that actually infiltrated our Constitution in 2010. We have nearly 10 years of living with it. We have seen where it is bad. It is time we went step by step and amended it, specifically the Bill of Rights, which I have talked about. That is where we were messed up. You appoint somebody and hear somebody in court saying you do not have power to appoint. Let us say you are the President and you appoint somebody, it is likely that somebody else from the streets will claim that you have no power to do so. You then wonder why were you given the votes if, indeed, you are running the country. These things need to be removed. There is also public participation. If you are a Member of the National Assembly who is appointed or elected by the people, when you want to legislate you go back again to the same people who elected you to ask them whether you are doing the right thing. They should ask you after five years. If you misbehaved, they just vote you out. If you do well, they let you do your work. People wanted to participate in the legislative process but when you go to those public participation forums, they are not there. It is just about money. You go around the counties and meet two or three people. Sometimes there is no one because it is not in our people to public participate. It is not in the masses. It is those NGOs that wanted to participate and create anarchy. That is what we are going through. We are going through a moment of anarchy that cannot be understood. You cannot define it. You cannot explain where you are at this moment in history. I thank the Committee for moving us forward. There are those who see a country. There are those who see a nest with eggs which they want to pick. This is the moment we create a country. This is the step we are taking. I encourage the Committee to come up with more."
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