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    "id": 1035263,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "misunderstood quad and spectrum in respect to the Scrap Metal Act. So, at the Committee of the whole House, as a Committee, we have proposed that the amendments that purpose to talk about a police officer as an inspector above the rank of an inspector is misplaced because he is emerging as an officer appointed at the National Police Service, yet this inspector is appointed under Section 29 (1) of the Scrap Metal Act. We will make those amendments at the most appropriate time. Hon. Speaker, now as a representative of the people of Funyula, as we have always said in the past, the question of Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, is an area that we need further refinement because some of the issues raised in this Bill are normally very fundamental. In the past, we have complained here that for this case, it had 38 statutes being amended. You cannot do justice to 38 statutes in the given period of time. After the withdrawals under Article 110(3) of the Constitution, by the Leader of the Majority Party, we are left with 24 statutes. Again, some of them are so fundamental. Yes, we have a few that are editorial issues and a few are matters to align the Constitution or the various Acts to the Constitution. But in totality, these are matters that even members of the public are concerned about. As I was seated here, quite a number of text messages have been coming through. How can you deal with some of the fundamental issues through a Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill that does not give members of public adequate time to look at the various issues? Hon. Speaker, allow me to make a comment on the Kenya Coast Guard Service Act. It was meant to protect our maritime boundaries. As we stand here, we passed it some time back. The President launched it some time back, but full operationalisation has been very slow - painfully slow. As a result, people who go fishing within Lake Victoria continue being brutalised by the police and thugs from Uganda who come all the way to the Kenyan boundaries."
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