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    "id": 406049,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in a case where a matatu driver or even the Chair is driving from Loitoktok to Nairobi and on the way he carries a friend who has in his possession a trophy, the law says that you will be arrested and fined or imprisoned for five years. That is inordinate. That is a travesty again. Therefore, that should be amended. Unless the driver was involved in the illegal trade of trophies, he should not be fined. We should follow the person who owns that trophy. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we want our Government to work, then let us do away with it. Every time we bring a Bill in this Parliament, we want to say that the Cabinet Secretary should not do this or that. Why do we have them then? Why do we think that Parliament knows everything and must manage everything? We have got an executive branch of Government and they have got their roles and functions; let them do them. In this case, actually, they are mandated a little by section 2 which says that there must be public participation. So, the public participation involves declaring what is going to be a park and what is going to be a national reserve. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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