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    "id": 202965,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I think this Bill was discussed very broadly. I think it was a product of a lot of consultation. This clause was deliberately put in there; that the Government shall be bound. I think it was even not necessary to put it there because all the Bills that we pass, which become laws, are actually Bills originated from the Government. The Government cannot bring Bills here and then say that they will not bind them, because then there is 4088 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES September 20, 2007 no need of Parliament. So, a Government should not bring a Bill which we pass it into law, and then it writes in the same law that when it becomes effective, it will not bind it! It is worthless! So, I suppose that it was not even necessary to put it there because it would have been automatic that an Act of Parliament would bind the Government. But now that it had been put by wide consultation, we wonder why the Minister would now want to withdraw it at this late day. I think it should be left the way it was."
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