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    "id": 1032295,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbeere North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Njagagua",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Muriuki Njagagua",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to second my Chairman. Indeed, as he has pointed out, the regulation-making authority appeared before us in Mombasa. One of the economic zones users, the Tatu City, were categorical that the economic zones users were never consulted fully. What they did was that they had only one meeting at the Sarova Hotel in Nairobi and the draft regulations that were tabled before them were not the same regulations that were gazetted by the regulation-making authority. As you know, you cannot condemn somebody unheard, so we gave the Cabinet Secretary a chance to explain to us what indeed happened. He gave his version of the story. Tatu City also gave their version of the story. The Committee came to the conclusion that, indeed, what was presented before the stakeholders was not part of what was published by the regulation-making authority. On that basis alone, we felt that the Ministry was not making their presentation before us with utmost good faith. On that basis again, there was a presentation that, not all the regulations users were indeed consulted. There are about nine economic zones registered in this country and many of them were never invited to the meeting at Sarova Hotel during the consultations. You must note that the meeting was done in January this year before the COVID-19 regulations came into place. So, it was the Committee’s observation and conclusion that the regulation-making authority never conducted adequate consultations that would meet the threshold laid down by our statutes. The economic zones users were never consulted fully. On that basis alone, we felt that the regulations ought to fail. They do not meet the required standards. We made the recommendation that we annul them in entirety. Hon. Speaker, I beg to second."
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