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    "id": 29603,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/29603/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. These three Bills are very crucial for police reforms in this country. I have no doubt that we seriously need them to be debated upon and passed as fast as possible. We cannot realize the gains of reforming the Judiciary without having these pieces of legislation, especially the one on police reforms. However, the Motion asking us to reduce the publication period of these three Bills, to me, is completely unnecessary. I wonder why this Government gets its priorities wrong. Why do I say so? We want to fast-track these Bills because they are important for reforms. However, they have a timeline of two years and not one year. So, if the reason being given is that we have up to the end of this month to pass them, then that is not true. We have many other Bills that have a deadline of this month; Power of Mercy; Immigration and Citizens Bill and those on electoral laws, among others. Why can we not have those being sorted out first, and we have the correct publication period for these Bills, so that we can debate them at the right time when the Kenyan public have been involved and have had time to read the Bills? The publication period that was put in our laws was not just an idle statement. It was meant for members of the public to have time to go through the Bills and have an input. So, if we continuously reduce the publication periods of Bills in this House, even Bills that we have completely no good reason at all to reduce the period, we will be doing a lot of harm to this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to oppose. Let the publication period for these Bills be as stipulated in law - 14 days."
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