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    "content": "You cannot go to make a law - a standalone Act of Parliament - to come and regulate or state what public participation is. To even change anything in that law, you need to amend it, and to repeal it, but you know the reason why those things are best left to the procedures of the House is that the Houses regulate their own procedures. Of course, again, and I like what Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo has talked about the interpretation, even as you sit notwithstanding the directions we gave last week about the documents that were brought from some ministry on economic partnership agreement, we instructed that there be fresh public hearings. Some other tired bodies have rushed to court to say they need now the courts to decree that there must be sufficient public participation. You see the danger of having some of these things put in legislation, that you want sufficient public participation. In Many jurisdictions that I know of, parliaments merely advertise. In fact, these days of technology, you just put it in your website. Those who care to follow and understand what parliaments are doing will pay attention. In fact, in many jurisdictions, you are told: You want to address us on which area of this legislation? How much time do you require? If you are a person who has researched well, would you want one hour, 30 minutes? Things like those so that it is something that is going to inform the House and enrich what is going to be the product from the House or from that process. Public participation cannot be you go and hold a baraza and then people are just asking for chai and other things like mandazi. That, you cannot call us to come to this hall and fail to give us transport back to where we came from now that you call it public participation. We must also look at some of these things as committees of this House, so that when you go out there and find that the people coming there are just coming because they have been told there are some visitors; waheshimiwa ... I mean, you are at liberty to call it off and say you want something more impactful. Member for Homa Bay Town."
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