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    "id": 40233,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, since the chairman has gone into the educational background, one of the issues that came up that we need to look at as a country when we are dealing with these issues is that we must be clear that the Constitution now allows public participation. We cannot run away from it. We must deal with it. From our experience in vetting other people in the past, especially Mr. Ahmednassir, when we were in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, one of the things that came out very clearly was that because we do not have a clear law, sometimes we recall a person severally. This continued for long time. Therefore, that is why there is need for a law that will spell out a very clear system, when to call a person and when the public must give information. This is because the way the public is giving information now is very haphazard. We were receiving information in the middle of vetting. We were hearing people with information while others were complaining that they had not been given a chance, yet the members of the public were too many. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of things that the vetting law will do and I hope it will do, is to regulate the way we do public participation. I am not against; I support it because it is a right that was entrenched. The issue of public participation is mentioned more than 15 times in the Constitution."
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