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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "want to draw the attention of the House to the fact that this was before the introduction of public participation where it was anticipated that a Bill be published for 14 days. Members of the public would know about it, then after the First Reading the House would process it with reference to the public. Now that we have 14 days of public participation, it does not make sense to have a Bill published for 14 days, then after First Reading you subject it to another 14 days of public participation. I do hope that even as we amend our Standing Orders that this will be one of the things we will be removing so that the Bill can be read immediately after publishing, then the 14 days kick off. So, Members will lose nothing by shortening the days because we are going to have a public participation anyway, which was what was anticipated within the first 14 days. It is a Bill that I would also ask Members to pay special attention to. It is more of a clean-up of the various electoral laws because of election issues, court decisions that have been made and aligning them with calendars. It is also about issues that happened in the last couple of months, including the passage of the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill, just to ensure that matters are aligned properly. For now, the issue is just procedural. It is just a matter of alignment in terms of the reduction of days from 14 days to five days so that we can then have it read the First Time then the process of public participation kicks in and we can process this within the Sixth Session. I beg to move and ask Hon. Wangwe to second."
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