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    "id": 1133574,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, they are balancing and so, I am allowing. The former institute did not exist by law. So, when making reference to what did not exist by law, it then becomes strange legally. Secondly, when you talk about indigenous knowledge, it is usually knowledge from our fathers in communities. So a definition of indigenous knowledge should have incorporated that. For example, we have indigenous knowledge on beneficial properties of certain plants which you get in research. Wisdom does not capture the concept. When you talk about invention, innovation, intellectual property and patent and even technology, those are terminologies that are already defined under the Industrial Property Act. So, normally the way you define it is by making reference to the Act, so that you do not create different definitions in a new law. If the Industrial Property Act already defines all these definitions, what we are likely to do, is to come with conflicting definitions that will create problems when we are implementing the law. There are times when the laws are operating concurrently, which they are likely to, because the components of these Acts are likely to come into contact with the Industrial Property Act. So, when you have differing definitions without making reference to an existing law with similar terminology, it creates a problem. I will leave it at that. You understand what I am saying. I may not have an issue with the definition of secretary, deleting Cabinet Secretary, but I would have wished that if we went one by one, I would have requested the Chairlady to then make reference as defined under the Industrial Property Act, instead of coming up with new definitions. This makes it difficult for me to even vote. I would want to encourage my good friend Hon. Sankok; I think he took a lot of chocolate today because he has sugar rash."
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