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    "id": 1294409,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294409/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Bill. However, I wish to make a few observations that I feel must go on record even as this House considers the Bill. We should stop treating public participation as a suggestion. This House sought memoranda from the public and other parties via newspaper notice on the 4th and closed submission on the 7th October, 2023. If we really want public participation to inform what we do as a House we must live up to the principles of the Constitution. It is for that reason that Sen. Crystal Asige and I are working on a legislative proposal to ensure that public participation is not treated as a suggestion. To give this particular Bill two or three days of public participation; advertising on Wednesday, 4th and closing on 7th Saturday, that appears as if we did the public participation to tick a box. Secondly, on the report of the Committee, the Senator for Nyamira County had beseeched us that this becomes a bipartisan Bill. Unfortunately, the signatures on the Bill do not denote bipartisanship because it is only one coalition that has signed the report. The other coalition, including the distinguished Sen. Omogeni, did not append their signature to the Bill. I wish we knew the reasons why they did not put their signatures on the Bill. Even though I understand that Sen. Omogeni must have been in the sky team flying from one country to the other. That is why his signature was not there."
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