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    "content": "and arising out of that meeting, we arrived at a consensus which took into account the time available to the House to deliberate the statute. That was number one. Number two took into account the need to have consensus on controversial provisions and number three took into account the fact that many hon. Members had independently generated their own amendments making The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (Bill No.82 of 2012) unsuitable for the purpose for which it had been originally intended. We intended it as an omnibus statute to clean up minor areas of the law in which there was a lacuna or inconsistencies. As finally proposed with the additional proposals, it became unwieldy, complicated and totally incapable of being debated intelligibly within the time available. A letter was therefore written from the Office of the Clerk to my office on 21st December confirming that we had agreed to limit this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill to three areas – The Political Parties Act, The Elections Act and the Leadership and Integrity Act which is a very minor amendment. Hon. Members, in summary, what we agreed upon was that we would confine this statute today to preparatory work necessary for a free and fair election and nothing else. So, it is on that basis that you will notice that the Supplementary Order Paper contains extensive amendments by my office to our own amendment of the Bill deleting every proposed amendment except the key ones. I would hope then against that background that the hon. Millie Odhiambo is talking about an amendment to the very few amendments we had agreed upon."
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