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    "id": 1461341,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1461341/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "1. Report on Inspection Visit to the Semi-autonomous Institutions of the East African Community in Uganda. 2. Report on Enhancing Reporting of Parliamentary Business on Online Platforms. 3. Report on Consideration of the Consolidated Fund Services Expenditures for the Supplementary Estimates I for the Financial Year 2024/2025. 4. Report on Public Petition on Funds Spent Contrary to the Provisions of Article 223 of the Constitution. 5. Report on Implementation Status of Reports on Petitions and Resolutions Passed by the House. 6. Report on Alleged Unfair Trade Practices by Foreign Investors in Kenya. 7. Second Report on Employment Diversity Audit in Public Institutions. 8. Report of the Extraordinary Session of the Sixth Pan-African Parliament. We also scheduled to have the First Reading of the Livestock Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 34 of 2024). As indicated in the House Business Committee, I have since written to the Principal Secretary of the State Department of Livestock Development. Rather, this Tuesday we got the approval of the House Business Committee to stay the First Reading of the Bill and any further consideration of the Bill to allow the ministry conduct public and stakeholder sensitisation on the contents of the Bill and the policy underpinning it. As you are aware, this Bill was to appear for First Reading and further consideration by the Committee. We since agreed that the ministry needs to do further sensitisation to the public because there has been much propaganda online. We may see this Bill demonised with many untruths to suffer the same fate as the Finance Bill of 2024. I have since written to the Principal Secretary to conduct further public sensitisation. Upon completion of the sensitisation process, we shall await their further guidance on the Bill. Whether they want to proceed with it in its current form or, out of public sensitisation process, there are things that they will need to reconsider. They will inform us in due course. In conclusion, the House Business Committee will reconvene on Tuesday, 13th August 2024 to schedule business for the rest of that week. I now lay this Statement on the Table of the House. I also lay the letter addressed to the Principal Secretary of the State Department of Livestock Development staying the First Reading and further consideration of the Livestock Bill, pending that sensitisation programme by the ministry. Allow me to say that the experiences we had with the Finance Bill inform the sensitisation process we have asked the ministry to do. As conceded by His Excellency the President, we have seen ministries author Bills, send those Bills to the House, and abandon them. They do not take time to sensitise the public on the policies underpinning those Bills. When people read and interpret things in their own way, some people may not be very accurate and correct. They misinform the public and use whatever is published to incite the public. We have seen much misinformation and disinformation peddled online about this Livestock Bill. I have engaged the Principal Secretary and the Department of Livestock Development. They have clarified a number of things. We have asked them to engage all stakeholders, even those who have been spreading falsehoods and misinformation online. That is so that they understand the policies underpinning the publication of the Bill before it comes to us for consideration. Our ministries will have to engage stakeholders before they get the House to consider Bills. They will have made it known to the public what policies underpin the published Bills brought to this House. Parliament does not have to bear the brunt of all the things that are being brought yet the owners of the Bills are not explaining to the public what they want to achieve. Many provisions in the Bills are for the betterment of our country and the good of the same public. When misinformed and disinformed, the public demonises Parliament and imagines that 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."
}