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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 12543,
        "legal_name": "Benson Mutura Kangara",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill but it is only after we discussed it with the Leader of Majority Party. There were some concerns and I agree with Members that there are some issues that we need to look at. I do not want to speak about the Leader of Majority Party but he is in agreement with most of the concerns of these Members. I serve in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and I have some issues to pick with the Attorney-General (AG) who is the principal legal adviser of the Government. He is not doing his job. These amendments, however miscellaneous they are, are bulkier than the current Constitution. Before these Bills come to this House, the AG as the principal adviser to the Government consents to them. He forwards them to our Committee and then before we deliberate on the Bills we get a memorandum from the AG requesting the Committee to look at some clauses. Surely, that beats logic since the AG should be thorough in doing these Bills and see that areas of concern are looked at. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, otherwise, this House is left with a lot of issues to comprehend, do or rather to undo what the AG was supposed to have done in the first place. There are issues which the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is faced with and we do not even know the way forward. We are appealing to you to make a ruling over this issue. We have never deliberated on this Bill that we have here as a Committee but it is already in the House and the House is superior and the Bill has to go on. However, there are other issues, like in today’s newspaper there is an advert requesting members of the public to give memorandum to this House and as per Article 118(1)(d) of the Constitution and our Standing Order No.127(3), the issue of public participation is very key to these issues. This is a House of order and rules and I am at pains to explain at what point the public participation will come in because the advert is there. People were supposed to have given their memorandum by Monday which is also short of the requirement of the seven days that the public is supposed to give them. Then after giving their memorandum, the Committee is supposed to deliberate on the issues and give a report in 21 days to this House."
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