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    "id": 1035224,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1035224/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "Lastly, on the Kenya Coast Guard Act of 2018, the Bill proposes to amend the Kenya Coast Guard Act to include Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) as bodies from which the service can recruit officers. It also proposes to expand the technical committee of the Service and to standardise the ranks in the Service with the Defence Forces. Hon. Speaker, I believe the details of the Acts being amended are contained in the Bill. The Memorandum of Objects and Reasons is very clear in terms of what happens. The various committees have gone through it. I have seen quite a number of amendments that they will be bringing as part of making it even better for us to do justice to this Act. It is a fairly straightforward Act because these are minor editorial things, they may be important, but they do not warrant bringing a whole Act. On all the Bills, where we thought that fundamental issues were being introduced, we consulted and withdrew them so that they can come within a bigger framework to have coherence within a Bill. The danger we have is one small item and then a flurry of amendments are made, but because there is no reference to the mother Bill, when eventually it is read together with the original Bill, you find inconsistencies and incoherence coming in. That is best brought within the framework of a comprehensive amendment to a Bill. We now limit ourselves to just these that I have enumerated within my moving notes. Hon. Speaker, I do not need to belabour the point. Today is a busy day like we said. I would like to ask Members that we give priority to the committees that looked at this Bill, then the chairpersons can share with us exactly what they came up with and if we are in agreement, we do not need a lot of debate. We need to move on to the other business of the House, noting the time limitations that we have. I must also take this opportunity to thank you for agreeing to stay on tonight until we, at least, complete the two Bills before us and have it on record before we go on recess. I do not have to save Bills that we could have finished tonight. With those remarks, I beg to move and ask Hon. Clement Kigano, Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, who consolidated all these Bills to second."
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