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    "id": 1021071,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1021071/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, you need to make a strong ruling on this, because if we go this route and a litigant goes to court tomorrow after the passage of this Bill, he will use the Hansard for today to fault us because the House is already indicting its own Report before it even goes to the Second and Third Readings. The Chairman of the Committee should be honest and tell us whether there were people who wanted to appear before the Committee and were not given a chance, like the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) as indicated by Hon. T.J. Kajwang’. It is important that you listen to the views of Members and go back and sit with the technical team of Parliament, Director of Committee Services and the Clerk and go through the memoranda submitted. We should find out whether there were people who were not given a chance by the Committee and on the basis of that, you can make a ruling. If we do not do that and proceed like this, we will be preparing defense for Mr. Omtatah and other litigants. This is a serious matter. It is the first time I am seeing a Report being tabled here raising issues of public participation. From experience, I want to state that this is a heavy matter and you need to listen to views from Members and make a decision before we move to Second Reading."
}