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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, this is a very important Bill. It is anchored in Chapter 12 of the Constitution to be reduced to an Act of Parliament. It is a huge Bill but it has been rushed. There have not been sufficient in depth consultations between the Ministry and the two Committees. I have not even seen the Minister’s amendments. These amendments came last night so even talking about the afternoon is impractical. I think it is important that there should be sufficient consultations between the Minister, the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and the Budget Committee. In fact, because of the rush even the harmonization between the amendments of the Budget Committee and the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade has not been done. You will see duplications and a lot of conflicting amendments. This is all because we were trying to beat the time deadline of this morning. Therefore, even pushing it to this afternoon, to me, does not make a difference. Between now and 2.30 p.m., what are we going to be able to achieve? Shall we have a meeting with the Minister so that we can go through his amendments as is the usual practice? We do it when dealing with the Finance Bill. We should sit with the Minister and that consultation will result in probably just a number of amendments that can be moved by the Minister himself. This is because then we will agree where there are inconsistencies between his and ours or disagreements and we reduce them to one set of amendments by the Minister. By that time, he will have consulted with the Committees and we shall have agreed on the various clauses. I would like to really ask that we have more time; between now and afternoon is not adequate."
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