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    "content": "Worse still, it is being proposed that all the money that is to be given to NGOs ought to pass, first, through the federation. You know in law, the donors engage with the NGOs. If you are going to pass money through another third party who is not a party to the negotiations, that is the easiest way to say the NGOs will never be given money by donors. Most importantly, I was going to suggest again to my colleagues and hon. Members that the amendments to the Public Benefit Organizations Act are so substantive. Let us shelve them for now, we give them a deeper look as we consider issues of accountability. There is a proposed amendment to the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act. Looking at it, the word “director” is being replaced with the word “secretary”. Somebody may think that is very simple but remember, when the Act was amended to remove my former partner, Prof. P.L.O. Lumumba, note other provisions which gave him all the powers he had as the director of Anti-corruption Commission and as the head of that commission were removed. Essentially, those powers which the Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission had when Prof. PLO Lumumba headed that Commission are being transferred to a secretary. The secretary is going to be more powerful than the Commission and I urge hon. Members to look at that very keenly. Let us shelve that amendment. It will make the Commission unmanageable. It will make the Commission not to be able to account for matters. In fact, the secretary is going to be the chief in terms of all investigations by the Commission. I think it is a substantive amendment. Let us shelve it. Let us look at it later. There is a proposed amendment to Kenya School of Law (KSL) Act, and the Act governing the Council for Legal Education. In terms of Kenya School of Law, it is proposed that KSL will now administer all examinations, excluding only those examinations being administered by the Council for Legal Education. Can KSL administer Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education or Kenya Certificate of Primary Education? All those examinations without qualifications which are beyond those examinations proposed for the Council for Legal Education! I would again urge that in terms of the amendments to the KSL legislation and the Council for Legal Education Act,"
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