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    "id": 412811,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to oppose this Bill for very basic reasons. One of the reasons is that miscellaneous amendment Bills are meant to deal with minor amendments and correcting typing errors, ambiguities in the law and so on. That is the explanation we have had. This particular miscellaneous amendments Bill contains numerous substantive changes in several Acts. Again, the process of bringing this Bill to the House bypassed a stage which, in my mind, is extremely important. This is the stage when we have a report of the committee of this House. We hear that the report of the committee is going to be available; it is not with us as yet, yet this Bill has so many Acts that it will really be difficult for hon. Members to go through it. I have seen the memorandum and the explanation for the Acts that are being amended. Even with that, it is still difficult to understand the amendments. One has to go and read through every Act. We have 49 of them, yet we missed out on the committee report that would have been of tremendous help to us. The other reason for my opposing this Bill is that some of the proposed amendments raise questions as to whether we are going against the Constitution. The gender issue has come out very clearly in this regard."
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