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    "id": 1057762,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tiaty, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassait Kamket",
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        "legal_name": "William Kamket Kassait",
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    "content": "would like to encourage Members to concretise their contributions in terms of amendments at the right time. That includes the issues raised by Hon. Makali Mulu who said that many statutory instruments come to the Floor of the House only when they are coming for annulment. It is a very good idea, but we need to concretise it. We should not just make contributions and leave it there. I know the elephant in the room is the issue of mediation. Members sometimes do not want to get tied to the long process of mediation. They want to get through with it and let the law pass. As Members of this Assembly believe, a certain addition or subtraction needs to come to the Bill. You are free to bring your issue in terms of amendments. Otherwise, I feel that the Members understood this Bill and in terms of helping the county assemblies, when this Bill becomes law, it will help the county assemblies to do their work in a smarter way. Speaking in retrospection, as a former speaker of a county assembly, it has been quite chaotic down there and it continues to be. So, this National Assembly is the mirror that should help the younger assemblies that we are growing constitutionally. When we come up with such an important law in terms of helping the county assemblies to legislate properly and do their work in an orderly manner; it is a positive step in terms of making things flow in an orderly manner in the county assemblies. I want to agree with Hon. Members that the Executive always has this idea of coming up with decrees and all manner of things without following the right procedure. This Statutory Instrument Act, either at the county or the National Assembly helps to put things in line. We have had to annul many regulations from this Assembly. I am sure in the county assembly there are many pieces of legislation or decrees that have been made and not been followed. These things have serious impact on the people. With those few remarks, I beg to reply."
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