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    "id": 1139161,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1139161/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, happy new year to you and all my colleagues. I take the opportunity to wish my colleagues a very prosperous and happy 2022. Since it is going to be a short one, I believe that we will make the most it and get the best value out of it for the few months that we are going to be here. I happen to have come across a schedule that was done by the Chairperson of JLAC, somewhere in the sharing that we did. The question as to whether this House intends to give the full breadth and length of time and indulgence to members of the public for them to ventilate, to bring their views and their memoranda to this House on this Bill is fully discharged by the schedule. I personally saw that has been prepared by the Committee and Chairperson of JLAC. I saw in that schedule, that this extends all the way from the 13th January, 2022 to 25th January, 2022 when the Committee intends to lay the report here. Any member of public, Member of this House or any interest group can take advantage of that time and bring their views here. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the other hand, I have had an opportunity to discuss with many members of the public who have been curious as to what has been happening about this Bill. Part of the big question that has been in the minds of Kenyans is why were people are fighting. If you ask members of the public if they understand why people were fighting, very few people understand what the real reasons were. As you know when such drama is created around a piece of the legislation that is before the House, members of the public get anxious. Unfortunately, this time that anxiety could not be justified, by reasons that would make members of the public follow. The reason I say this is because members of the public are now happy that this Bill is before the Senate because when it comes here, they have an opportunity to contextualize and understand what the real issues are. This is because if there is one thing that is clear to everybody in this country, it is that this House has discharged itself in the"
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