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    "id": 94905,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. As I support, I want to ask my colleagues to ensure that we all go back to our respective places and regions of this country where we come from and see how best we can reconcile this country and move it to the next constitutional dispensation. As I say that, I want to request the President during this period, to ensure that he signs into law the Bill that we passed in this Parliament, the Indemnity (Repeal) Act, which is part of the statues of this country. The President, after four months has not found it relevant to sign it into law. I want to plead with him. I even pleaded with him yesterday and I want to thank him for his visit to the North Eastern Province where he acknowledged the challenges we have there. These include the road network, universities and districts. I realize now that anytime the President makes a directive like this, an organ of the Government is ready to challenge him. Just now the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission (IIBRC) challenged the decision of the President to create more districts. We require these districts. They bring services closer to us and we want them to confirm them. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is an issue that is very much in the Kenyan domain regarding the Draft Constitution. This is the Kadhis Court. I would like to request those Kenyans who have made the Kadhis Court an issue that this is not an issue anymore. In fact, not only is it not an issue in the Coast Province, because we know how it came to be, but also in the North Eastern Province. In 1927, the British Government appointed the son of Mohammed Abdul Hassan as the Chief Kadhi in the north eastern part of Kenya. So, this is historical. We would like Kenyans who use this issue not to use it to confuse the public because after 4th August we want a reconciled, united country. I beg to support."
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