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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to make my contribution to the Public Order (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.14 of 2019). As you consider the weighty issues that the Member for Rarieda has raised, which I think have a lot of merit because looking at this Bill, I was also asking myself fundamental questions about Article 24 of the Constitution, which allows for limitation of our human rights. Kenya is considered a country that has a robust Human Rights Chapter in our Constitution comparable to very few countries in the world. So, when we set to limit the rights that we created in the same Constitution, there is an orderly manner within which we must operate. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as we consider that looking at the text of this amendment, I urge this House to quickly defeat this Bill - to reject it in total and return it back to the sender. We need to be very careful, and this has been said a number of times. When you are passing any legislation think about tomorrow and about the future generations. Do not think about the circumstances at the moment. The circumstances might be favourable now but they may not be favourable in future. You can even see some recent examples of the same. I urge my friend, Hon. Simon King’ara, that this should not have been the Bill that he would have sponsored in this House. These are the reasons: First, there are certain ambiguities in your proposed amendments. When you talk about laws of earnings, who is going to calculate, tabulate and arrive at the figures or is it going to be allowed for any individual to claim loss of earnings? Again, right now, as I stand here, there are enough laws in place to deal with grievous harm that any individual would cause to any other person, even if it is not in a public rally. Even in your bedroom, when you cause grievous bodily The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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