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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to support this particular Bill. It has a couple of very interesting components. Whereas many MPs have lauded the definition under Clause 3 of the precincts of Parliament, I really have issues with Clause 3 (d), which makes the offices of Parliament, including places where Members sit, to be precincts of Parliament. That would give us a lot of latitude as MPs to do whatever we do in the name of the precincts of Parliament. It is a Clause that really needs to be looked into and thought through. Whereas Parliament and the Committees of Parliament can be useful in doing what we do, I really think that making the offices of MPs also precincts of Parliament is too much latitude because we have seen what MPs can do. I am just trying to be cautious that we do not bite too much. Clause 5 also speaks to various things in terms of where members of the public can raise petitions and picket. This would also be in violation of Article 38 of the Constitution on the rights to picket. If at all you are going to give the Speaker the power and authority to designate specific places where members of the public can picket and raise issues, I really think that goes counter to the right to picket because you want to picket where you are mostly felt. For example, if the Speaker were to designate that you picket towards Haile Selassie Avenue, which is also within the precincts of Parliament, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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