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    "id": 207069,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with tremendous respect, what I am doing is just purely to point out that there is that anomaly in the objects and, I believe, they will be able to correct the situation. August 23, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3447 Further, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a while ago, this House was treated to some exciting debate or moments about the operationalization of the Privatization Act, which I believe is Act No.2 of 2005. The operationalization is by the Minister for Finance. Therefore, in keeping with that debate which has just taken place, I just want to point out that Clause 3 of this Bill, which provides an amendment to Section 58(a) of the Advocates Act by saying:- \"The proposed Section 58(a) of the Act shall come into operation on such dates as the Attorney-General may, by notice in the Gazette, appoint\". I think with that recent experience, we need now to put an end to this kind of law making style, so that if we want to make a law to govern particular operations, we should not give the Ministers of Governments the latitude to go and sit in their offices year in, year out, before they can operationalise an Act of Parliament, which this House has passed and the President has assented to. I, therefore, wish to point out that this, again, is an area that the Attorney-General should take note of and correct. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, 15 pages of this Bill are devoted to proposed amendments to the Kenya Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, (No.3 of 2003). There are very fundamental proposed changes. I must say that I am really surprised that both the Mover and Seconder have said nothing about those serious and fundamental changes proposed. I think the reason must be that they do not want this House and country to know what it is that they are proposing. They should have taken sufficient time to explain to the House what it is that they intend to achieve by some of these proposed amendments."
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