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    "id": 1337716,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kesses, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Rutto",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for according me this opportunity. Firstly, I stand to support the amendment by Hon. Chepkonga. Equally, I take this moment to congratulate my senior, being a seasoned lawyer and politician, in leading a very important Committee on ensuring that we have a regulatory framework in the Republic of Kenya that suits the intention and the spirit of the Constitution. Article 1 of the Constitution discusses the powers that belong to the citizens and can be exercised through peoples’ representation. Looking at what has been happening, especially on the regulatory framework system, the people who have been endowed with delegated powers to make those particular regulations…The real intention of statutory instruments is to facilitate faster establishment of legal framework that supports the co-existence of the peoples’ social needs or given specific operationalisation of a given law. However, looking at the practise at the moment, most of the persons who have been endowed with this power come up with certain regulations that seem to serve some specific interests. Some of them have gone to an extent of harassing, extorting, intimidating and even reversing the original spirit of the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. This amendment seeks to revert the power of the people to where it belongs through the peoples’ representatives. I stand to support this amendment. Each and every regulatory body that has been given powers to make regulations should seek to reflect what the law says. What does the Constitution say? The right place for this reflection is nowhere else other than the legislative House. I seek that this amendment should go further beyond the national Government as it is here. Also going back to the county governments, we will appreciate that most of the regulations that have been passed by county governments have been harassing members of the public, especially in business. The regulations have been inhibiting expansion of businesses. They have served to extort people and infringe upon the space of doing business. What we have is constant regulation-making thus over-regulation. This has led to oppression of people through acts of mining from those who are considered to be lesser persons and need to be supported. Laws are meant to support, encourage, cultivate and create an environment that brings about co-existence. The regulations we are seeing nowadays, especially at the county governments level, have been used and misused to the extent that people have suffered more than they would benefit from the good intention of the law of creating an enabling business environment. Hon. Deputy Speaker, allow me to take this opportunity to support these amendments and to say that time has come for Parliament to take its space."
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