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    "id": 198081,
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    "speaker_name": "[His Excellencythe President]",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 43,
        "legal_name": "Emilio Mwai Kibaki",
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    "content": "To ensure proper planning and development of our urban areas, as well as the proper enforcement of laws and bylaws for regulation of urban development, we will table in the House proposals to set up a National Urban and Metropolitan Areas Authority. To promote the development of affordable housing, we will present the Housing Bill and a Landlord and Tenant Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with regard to national security, my Government will continue to propose legislation and policies that safeguard our national security, while also ensuring protection of our people's rights and freedoms. We propose to bring to the House several Bills touching on national security. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we will table before the House the Organised Crimes Bill to contain the emergence of organised gangs and militias which bode ill for our society. We will also table the Anti-money Laundering Bill as well as introduce amendments to the Chiefs Act and Firearms Act. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to propose that Hon. Members become fully involved in promoting and leading the district peace and reconciliation committees. This is necessary because the post- election violence saw communal relations stretched to breaking point. Parliament, as the representative body of all Kenyans, must now rise to its historic responsibility and play its role fully in restoring peace, security as well as law and order in our beloved country. Hon. Members, you must now become the ambassadors of peace and reconciliation in your constituencies, among your communities and throughout the country. Kenyans need to hear and be reassured by their political leaders that they can live, own property and do business in any part of the country without fear of prejudice, harassment or prosecution. March 6, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 45 In this regard, we propose to bring to the House a comprehensive policy and accompanying legislation that will ensure that the threat to our national security and social cohesion caused by negative ethnicity is neutralised for the well being of our country. As I conclude my remarks, Mr. Speaker, allow me to reiterate the need to build and strengthen the capacity of hon. Members to do their work. In this regard, I urge the Parliamentary Service Commission to ensure that Members are provided with sufficient research and technical assistants as well as computer and office facilities during this Session. We have a chance to make the Tenth Parliament a meeting of minds and an avenue for a great competition of ideas that will reflect the highest levels of constructive debate in our nation's history."
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