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    "id": 1032344,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, he is debating. I do not have to agree with him. This is a Chamber of debate. I give my view; it might oppose what you were saying or what you want, but this is the essence of the House. You debate as you wish. I think the Hon. Member just wanted to debate further, but he had already spent all his time in debating. He is my good friend; we ate Miraa with him in his constituency in Imenti, but I wish he did not interrupt my train of thought on this matter because it is such a critical matter. What I am trying to bring to the fore is just how important it is even for the Committee… The moment we get out of here and support the annulment because maybe they had no other option, is to just tell Kenyans how critical this matter is and that is what I was trying to do. On the issue of public participation, we must as a House come up with a law on public participation. Public participation does not mean concurrence. You can bring your views and we do not have to agree with them. That does not mean that you did not conduct public participation. We must have a law so that it is clear to everybody that you can bring your views but it is not necessarily the view that carries the day. I have even seen one of the Tatu City people who came and said that there is something wrong with the freedom of movement because the regulation says that for you to access the Special Economic Zone area you need to have a pass. We have freedom of movement even in this Parliament, but for you to access it you must have a pass. So, it is neither here nor there. If it is said that to access the Special Economic Zone one needs a pass, that does not interfere with the constitutional right of movement. We also cannot be taken for a ride as a people just to state that if a particular stakeholder feels that their views were not taken into consideration, then there was no public participation. Regulations on Special Economic Zones are long overdue. In fact, we should go further and state that within our Special Economic Zones, we will have lower tariffs so that we can attract investors here and create jobs for our people. With those many remarks, I support only because the Committee had no choice, but those are my views on the matter."
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