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    "id": 1135111,
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    "content": "Hon. Members, you may recall that on, 28th August, 2018, the Member for Rarieda Constituency, the Hon. Dr. Otiende Amollo, raised a Point of Order challenging the constitutionality of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 12 of 2018) in its entirety. Among other arguments, the Hon. (Dr.) Otiende and other Members who spoke cited the above-mentioned amendments as being in violation of the Constitution and not deserving to have been contained in a miscellaneous amendment Bill. In respect of this matter, I did permit the House to proceed with Second Reading and subsequent stages of the Bill and take conscious decisions on the contested proposals in one way or the other. The Hansard Report of the House on 15th November, 2018 when the House considered the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2018 (National Assembly Bill No. 12 of 2018) in the Committee of the Whole House records the then Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, Hon. William Cheptumo moving the House to delete the Clauses of the Bill that were proposing to include advocates and accountants as reporting institutions. In his justification, the Chairperson is on record stating as follows – “… we are proposing a deletion to that section (2) because this is a very serious step. It requires wide consultations. We cannot deal with this under miscellaneous amendments. That is the basis and justification of that. That is the same case in section 48 which we will do later.”"
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