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    "id": 1493643,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": "I have two very important things to say. The Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs has two drafts of public participation Acts which we are looking at. In fact, we had scheduled December to be our deadline so that we are able to produce something for the House to look at, but we are happy to hear the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party say that they are also working on an Act of Parliament which will be coming to us in due course and which we will be debating when the right time comes. Part of public participation is the question which recently, on Monday, the newly appointed Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya Prof. Kithure Kindiki posed to the Judiciary. What is the difference between public interest and national interest, and which of the two is higher than the other? As far as public interest is concerned, and that goes with public participation, there may be an element of mobilisation towards rejecting a popular idea of the Government. Is that what you should be calling public participation and public interest? Or we should be looking at the bigger good of the country. What is beneficial to the country? We should be carrying that as actually what entails public interest. All this is going to come before the House. We have to prepare ourselves so that we can enact one of the best laws in the country. It should be guided by the Judiciary so that we produce an Act of Parliament on Public Participation which is acceptable across the board. Thank you very much."
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