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    "id": 947194,
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    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. At the outset, I want to recognise that we are able to discuss this Motion because the Government has been faithful, at least, on this issue, to the requirements of the Constitution. These are the gains that we gave ourselves in the 2010 Constitution. Before, the Executive would just have gone ahead and grabbed the land in whichever way that they deemed necessary and then give it to the people who, perhaps, sang to their tune. However, with the provisions in the new Constitution, we are able to go through this Motion so that we can hear the views such as the ones we have heard. A little earlier in the day, we saw the Constitution at play, where Parliament was requested to do what many of us did not know is the responsibility of Parliament, that is setting the debt ceiling for ourselves as a country and allowing the Executive to borrow only to a given extent. A third issue has arisen now; listening to Mheshimiwa Wamunyinyi and the Member from Bungoma who has just spoken. This is the issue of public participation. When we have been called to do public participation, I think we take it for granted. I was asking the Vice-Chair of the Committee that has tabled this good Report whether there was an opportunity for the members to inform the report before it came to the Floor and she is telling me the opportunity was available. Their sentiments are crucial. They come from this area. We cannot pretend to be solving problems when we are this far, while the people who are near there have not quite bought into what we are saying. The fact that there was an opportunity to do it at the right time takes it away from them. They cannot come and try to shoot it at this late stage. They should have done it a little bit earlier. It tells you so much because, even as I am saying this, they are in the House, but they cannot tell that I am actually hitting at them. I can only wish them a nice evening. They were very eloquent in saying what they should have said a little bit earlier. Before I say anything on this report, I want to weigh in on an issue that was discussed a little bit earlier. We had the issue of debt ceiling and the Member for Wajir South, Dr. Sheikh Mohamed, had a dissenting position. What horrified me was that, as Members of this Parliament, we could not give him an opportunity to debate. We got to a point of heckling him. I think for lack of a better word that is a bit primitive. It is not what we expect from Members. It is good to let people say what they want to say. He really had points that he was raising. As to whether he was able to convince people to his side, that is why we are here to debate. One of the best hecklers was the man you call 001, this nominated Member…"
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