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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to begin by taking the opportunity to thank and congratulate the team that was appointed by this House led by Sen. Omogeni in the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. They did the work that culminated in the Report that we have. In congratulating them, I believe that it is also time when, we, as a House, have to answer affirmatively to the same question that we asked. The question has been asked here continuously: “Does Parliament act or exist in vain as far as this process is concerned?” In my view, this question was answered affirmatively when we first held the discussion in the Speaker’s Office, when allowing that Committee to join the Committee of the National Assembly. Indeed, in that sitting, the question was: “Should they invite public participation?” It was arrived at in the affirmative that, indeed, that Committee could invite public participation and collect views, albeit, that information and those views would inform the report of the Committee. It is at that point that the decision was made that Parliament does not exist in vain and is not a conveyor belt in this process. Even the more fundamental question, as I make my points on the Bill, is that as Senators, do we want then our Committee to have acted in vain in the Report that they have tabled here? The Committee has proffered views, opinions and positions that they have arrived at after deliberations and tabled a Report which we have all agreed is supposed to inform the debate and help to shape the opinion of Members. If you listen to our continued debate, while the Committee was clear, and that is what the Chairperson started with--- He said: “After our deliberations and collection of views, at the tail-end of the Report, the report can be adapted and the Bill passed and then, members of the public will make a decision.”"
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