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    "id": 373247,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, there is a lot of misunderstanding. It is making people very uncomfortable in their Chairs. Hon. Speaker, this Bill will go to the Committee. We have two weeks remaining. It can stay in this House for the next two months even after we come back. This is because there is the Second Reading where hon. Members will debate. There will then be the Committee Stage where we will bring amendments. If you want to extend the come- we-stay period from six months to 20 years, you will have the choice. I want to dispel the fears; you have the powers to even reform the come-we-stay that you are scared of. What the hon. Member is asking is that we reduce the publication period so that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs can be seized of the matter and bring the necessary amendments. Hon. Members will then have an opportunity to debate this Bill, maybe, in September when we come back. With regard to the Bill on financing of election campaigns, it is the responsibility of this House to set up the law. This Bill was part of the package of Bills for the last elections, but because of the many Bills in our in-tray we could not do it. The hon. Member is not asking us to pass. We are not at the Committee Stage neither are we at the Second Reading. He wants the First Reading to ensue so that the Committee can legally have the Bill and even interrogate it in the next two weeks and then by the time we come back from the recess, we shall have enough time to make amendments. Hon. Members, please, read this Bill. I had to give a copy to the media and hon. Members read it through the media. They should read the Bills which are within the precincts of Parliament. After reading The Standard Newspaper now they realize how this Bill touches on their lives. It is the prerogative of the House; we could still reject this Procedural Motion, but this is the procedure."
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