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    "id": 1021092,
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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "House and not by the Committee. So, I think we are trying to prematurely kill a baby even before it has left the labour ward. It has been brought to the House. Let us wait. We are anticipating debate. We are already debating because we have information that other Members do not have. When you look at the Report, which I have been perusing through, there is a whole list of stakeholders who appeared before the Committee. Others sent their memoranda. The fact that somebody’s memorandum has not been accepted in total does not mean they did not participate. It means they participated, but their views were not taken into account. That is different from saying: “I did not participate! I was not given adequate time.” How much is adequate time? If we start doing this, as the Member for Ndaragwa has said, we will end up with a situation where we will fall victim to the agitation by the civil society out there and this House will never do anything without being challenged. You will be told there was not adequate public participation. How much is adequate? We are making ourselves victims of their own accusations out there and soon, this House will never be able to legislate. Or we will always be challenged on everything we legislate. Let us stand firm. Time has been given, people are told to come or send memoranda. If somebody’s memorandum was sent outside time, and they still want to be considered… As an individual Member, you still have an opportunity to bring that issue on the Floor of the House during the Second Reading of this Bill, and to bring any amendments at the Committee of the whole House stage. But let us respect the work the Committee has done. Otherwise, we are going to kill committees. Committees do all the work and bring a report. But before you have even seen it, somebody says that report should be thrown out even before it has been debated. Let us be careful so that we do not set a precedent where we will make it possible for anyone dissatisfied with what is going on in a Committee to come here or to tell a Member to come and raise an issue to kill a report even before the House has had an opportunity to look at it, debate it and add their inputs to either enrich it or to refer it back to the Committee. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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