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    "id": 1337787,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "That notwithstanding, Parliament must always assert its authority. We should not allow any other body in this country to take away the power of legislation from the National Assembly or from Parliament. That is something I support. I stand to support my friend, Hon. Chepkonga, not just because he is my friend, but because he has proven himself to be a worthy Chairman of the Committee on Delegated Legislation, and a worthy legislator. I think his people will re-elect him and continue to re-elect him. They should never make the mistake they made in the 12th Parliament. He is worth being in this House because he is a repository of great knowledge, great understanding of law, and he chairs that Committee and he is doing a fantastic job. That is why he brings this law that will stamp the authority of Parliament forever, so that no other person will usurp our powers. I watched here as regulations on the fisheries and marine industry and other funny regulations killed the fishing industry in my constituency. It made fishermen very poor just because a person who had her or his own motive of protecting big fishermen and trawlers published some funny regulations that never came to this House. The regulations were operationalised and the fishing industry there collapsed. Today, the Fisheries Management and Development Act has been expunged by the court, but fishermen in my constituency continue to be arrested on bases of some regulations. I tell them that since the Act is dead, even the regulations are dead, but because some people think they are more powerful than Parliament, they continue to harass fishermen at the Coast on the basis of some regulations. I like this draft law because it seeks to ensure that regulations that are expunged are published to inform members of the public that those regulations no longer exist so that fishermen at the Coast can continue to do what they do best to provide for themselves and help the economy to grow."
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