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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Because he is my friend and brother, I just wanted to massage his ego a little big. This will give you an opportunity, hon. Minister, to cure the challenge you have in Clause 4(5) where there is a likelihood that the petition could be taken to the wrong House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the next and final thing that I want to make comments on is that this legislation is incomplete. It is incomplete in the sense that it looks like members of public will be petitioning Senate and the National Assembly just for record. When you say at the end that we shall keep a register of the petitions, what is the use of having a register? We must have a clause that demands of the Executive that it acts on the recommendations of whatever was being petitioned. I know you share this frustration with me having petitioned on behalf of the Mau Mau and I having petitioned on behalf of Kiboroa squatters in Trans Nzoia. I also petitioned on behalf of the victims of the pyramid schemes. Yes, we have done the petitions and the recommendations are there. But those people are still pushing us because they were not petitioning for fun or record. They wanted some specific result to come out of the process. I beg that you consider the need for you to expand it further so that we demand for action from the part of the Executive. I support and thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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