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    "id": 1122437,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1122437/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
        "slug": "jeremiah-kioni"
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    "content": "Parties, representatives of minority and marginalised groups, World March of Women Kenya Chapter, Premier Peak Leadership Foundation, Sauti ya Wanawake Pwani, Coordination Centre for Community Empowerment, Midrift Human Rights Network among others. The NGEC argued that Parliament does not have powers to enact legislation that betters the provisions of Article 59(1), (2) and (3). However, we received another submission from the Kenya Law Reform Commission and also the Office of the Attorney-General and the Department of Justice that again clearly informed the Committee that Parliament has those powers to enact legislation and give full effect to Article 59 of the Constitution. Of course, Parliament has a duty under those specific provisions of the Constitution to enact a law to restructure the KNCHR and the NGEC into to two or more separate commissions. Therefore, the Committee was within its mandate. The National Treasury made their submission and clearly stated that this will result in savings and the money saved can be used to ensure that it is committed to developmental issues. It is with those remarks that I urge Members to support the intended merger. There is unnecessary duplication. You would notice that if your family has been visited by police officers and various human rights are violated, different members of the family will be reporting the same matter to different institutions and some of the institutions will manage to escape from liability because poor Kenyans cannot be able to follow through those tedious and fairly expensive procedures or processes because of the way we have structured those institutions."
}