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    "id": 1032326,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. Let me thank the Committee for bringing up this issue on the Floor, despite the fact that they are annulling these regulations. Maybe, according to the Ministry, they meant good for the economic zones. Whereas we know that these economic zones are the recipe of employment in this country because they employ our youths, they use our raw materials. During these hard times, they should cushion the Government. However, we have to live with the rule of law. We have a Constitution which was enacted in 2010. It categorically states that there should be public participation in anything which has to do with the public. I am persuaded that whatever the Ministry brought before the Committee is not exactly what was in the regulations or even spelt out by the stakeholders who appeared before it. I am worried that we did not go back to the drawing board as a Committee to get these people to put their heads together. This appears to be delaying the exercise of enacting these regulations. However, now that we have to live with the rule of law, we should go back to the drawing board and harmonize the feelings of the public and those of the Committee. The Committee has to reach a consensus and then come to plenary. I personally will challenge the Committee to fast- track and bring these two bodies together. They need to spell out the regulations for the benefit of the public and then proper public participation should be done. This is because we cannot run away from these economic zones. These regulations are to be improved to benefit the public and enhance services which are given by the economic zones. Please let us not digress on that. It is very important. We need it. The law has to be followed and as such, the Committee in its wisdom felt that we should annul the regulations. We should annul them in their entirety so that the Ministry can now put its house together. The Cabinet Secretary has to go and put her house together. She needs to get proper public participation in this particular exercise. Moreover, she should bring something which conforms to the law. This is so that when it comes to the House, it will be easy for us to push it. Unfortunately, now we are annulling these ones and yet they could have benefited the economic zones more. I support and believe the matter will be revisited very soon."
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