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"speaker_name": "Mbeere North, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Njagagua",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second the Committee’s Report on its consideration of the Crops (Fibre Crops) Regulations, 2020 (Legal Notice No.120 of 2020). The main purpose of this Committee is to check the excesses of the Executive. Once we pass general pieces of legislation in this House, the Executive is given the work to prepare Regulations, but in many occasions, you find that whatever regulations are prepared are contrary to the mother Acts and the Constitution. You will appreciate that there is a constitutional provision that says that any regulation-making authority must consult the public. That is a cardinal principle of the Constitution. In this case, the regulation-making authority was selective on who they consulted. As you have heard from the Mover of the Motion, the authority selectively left out other parts of the country that deal with fibre crops, including the Rift Valley and parts of the Coast. We must appreciate that Mogotio in the Rift Valley and Vipingo at the Coast are known for sisal growing. These areas were specifically, and with no reasons given to the Committee, left out of the public participation processes. On that ground alone, which is a constitutional requirement, we thought that these Regulations do not meet the test of time and are due for annulment. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not think I need to belabour the point. If one part of the Constitution is not met, then the regulation-making authority has not met the constitutional test. These Regulations must be annulled in their entirety. I second."
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