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    "id": 1170113,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am a Member of the Committee on Delegated Legislation. Having been in this House for 10 years, I am aware we passed a scrap metal law. It is applicable in the country. When you have a law, regulations must follow. We are alive to the fact that there was a presidential order recently dealing with this scrap metal menace. It stopped being scrap metal to dealing with metal. I have an experience in one of the rivers in a place called Nziu in Makueni Constituency where the Kenya Rural Roads Authority(KeRRA) did a bridge and put metal bars on the right and left side to make sure nobody drops into the river. Within two days after KeRRA did this, somebody came at night and cut all that metal on both sides of the road and went to sell it. Therefore, school children were at a risk. This has happened in a number of occasions. Dealing with scrap metal has become a multi-billion criminal enterprise. Many people are making a kill out of it. They collude with the people who smelt metal. They give bribes and their lorries are packed with stolen Government property. These regulations would have been very important but the Government should know that there are timelines in making regulations. There is the Statutory Instruments Act, the parent law and the Constitution. The moment those are not followed and there is no proper public participation, then obviously the Government should know that it is doomed to fail even when it means well for the nation. We want to be a House that makes law that conforms to the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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