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    "id": 306631,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to oppose this Bill. The whole Bill is not wrong. Most of it is fair. I oppose it on the following basis:- I read the supreme law of this country and it says in Article 80 that:- “Parliament shall enact legislation establishing procedures and mechanisms for effective administration of this Chapter”. It goes on prescribing penalties. This Bill is changing this. It is not putting down the procedures and mechanisms as clearly as it should have done. It appears to water down certain elements of what should have been put in. I have the first draft and it covered much more than what the Bill does. Unfortunately, there are many issues here that we need. The Bill has failed to establish procedures and mechanisms. It has failed to prescribe penalties. In respect of integrity in gainful employment, I beg to differ with my brother and learned friend, accountant. We are also learned by the way. I beg to differ that State officers can have gainful employment through limited companies. If you are a State officer, you must remain a State officer. You cannot then go and hide behind limited companies. That hiding is the problem and unfortunately, this is what happened under the Moi regime. That is why we do not have enough doctors in hospitals because doctors are going all the time."
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