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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank all the hon. Members who have been here to diligently pass the amendments that have been proposed on this Bill and highlight that one of the reasons as to why we have such a massive Bill is that we did not do a pre-publication scrutiny. Had we done so, we would have re-published the Bill. As a Committee, we had the option of re-publishing the Bill and delaying it or proposing amendments. So, we took the difficult route. What we have learnt from this is that since the Leader of Majority Party signs all these Bills, he probably needs to invest in pre-publication scrutiny, so that we do not have to deal with the massive amendments that we have had to deal with on this Bill. Secondly, I want to thank the Members of my Committee and the stakeholders because they really put us on our toes although at times they wanted over-consultation until we bought into their amendments. On the issues of culling and cropping especially, we spent so much time. We had one particular stakeholder who stayed with us even when we were having our closed-door meeting because she really wanted to convince us to delete the culling and cropping provision. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, having said so and considering the time aspect, I would just like to thank the Members of my Committee. Some of them are surveyors but we can now see that they have also become conservationists. Some of them did a lot of work as to sometimes even put the CIC to shame. I want to note the contributions of ole Kenta, the Member for Narok North, for really saving the counties that have national reserves. He was able to provide constitutional justification even when the CIC was threatening that they would take us to court if we passed that particular amendment. So, I The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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