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    "id": 1549206,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549206/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "I fully support what this law is intended to achieve. Maybe I should take this opportunity to tell the regulations making authorities that when they are making these regulations, again, we do not give them absolute power. The power that the people of Kenya have given us is to make laws on their behalf. There are processes that go on here. We have to advertise, take the views of Kenyans and do a lot of processes before we have the law in place. We have to go through a lot of processes before a legislation becomes a law. We have to debate, agree, disagree and negotiate until the general will of the people is expressed in a piece of legislation. So, when you are given that regulation-making authority, you are not supposed to exercise absolute powers. I want to say here that ministers, both at the county level and at the national level, must know that the power to make regulations is not absolute power. They must know that the power is with the county assembly, the National Assembly and the Senate. That is where the Constitution has said the power to make law belongs. So, when you make these laws, there are two fundamental things that you must do. When you appear before the Senate Committee on Delegated Legislation, which I belong to, we expect that in exercise of those powers, you have done public participation first. You cannot bring or propose milk regulations, any crop regulation for example,"
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