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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I am of the view that in our Standing Orders it has been suggested before that we be co-sponsoring Bills from both Houses, so that when this baby is passed over to the National Assembly, it has another mother or father. That is because the sometimes the urgency of the Bill is who is pushing it and the cloud that they may be having around the levers of power and leverage in Parliament. I hope that when the Bill is passed, because I have a feeling that it will be passed, it shall also be properly implemented. One of the challenges that we have had in this country is the continuous deterioration of the rule of law. People do not follow that which we have pronounced ourselves into. Sometimes you feel that there is legislative gridlock and over-legislation. However, certainly, that can never be that we should not be able to pass such legislation because that is our work. There is an implementing Arm of Government, but nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. I feel that this is a Bill that will emancipate many people from slavery, especially modern day slavery, where the people who produce at the bottom get the least. A very good example is coffee costing X amount of dollars at Starbucks, but how much of that percolates to the coffee farmer? The same applies to cashew nuts or any other crop. The fact that we are looking at financial systems that are using mobile phones apps or Fintech, how do we create chamas ; small cooperative societies that pull together so that people can create wealth and have lending ability and use that as a building block towards the prosperity of this country? Madam Temporary Speaker, with those many remarks, I want to congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Zani. I pray that this Bill shall find the light of day."
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