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    "content": "Hon. Members, having said this, it is also worth noting that the courts have further prescribed the threshold of what is meaningful public participation, a fact that was alluded to by the Member for Garissa Township, Hon. Aden Duale, in raising his point of order. The thresholds are intended to ensure that this House or, indeed, its Committees do not just engage in a ticking- the-box or cosmetic exercise in a bid to comply with the obligation as set out in Article 118 of the Constitution and Standing Order No.127. The process must, therefore, be qualitative rather than quantitative. In this regard, it is not the number of submissions that are made by stakeholders or, indeed, the number of stakeholders that participate in such an exercise that matter. A Committee must demonstrate that it did engage, consider and examine the submissions made by the public in arriving at its decision. This, Hon. Members, can only be ascertained by a look at the Report of the Joint Committees in an instant case."
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