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    "id": 415838,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to thank the Leader of Majority Party for what is laid down in terms of the business of the House. What I would like him to clarify is something in relation to the Private Members’ Bills. Yesterday we had a few, which is a good move. We, however, have Bills, for example, I have three Bills right from the last Parliament which I drafted myself. All that is required is just a review of the Bills. It is now three years. This shows that there is a problem with our Legal Department. What I want to know, I do not know if it is from the Leader of Majority Party or yourself as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Service Commission, is what you will be doing to help fast-track and help the Legal Department. This is because if I can draft and three years later only review is impossible, then there is a problem. Secondly, on the matters that go to Senate for approval like the Members of the Pan African Parliament, my name was proposed and it is taking months. The Constitution has provided a very clear way to go. If that is not put in place--- We cannot be put in limbo, it is either we are Members of Pan African Parliament or we are not and we accept and we move on. We have accepted and moved on over many things. So, we can also accept and move on if we are not Members of the Pan African Parliament. I cannot be sitting in one Committee purportedly because I am in Pan African Parliament and yet I am not. So, if the Senate is slow in doing their work then really we can put the constitutional mechanisms in place to force them to do their work. I would want the Leader of Majority Party to explain to us what he has put in place to fast-track the issues that are pending that we send to the Senate and they are not taking any action on them. Finally, I have had a few phone calls where members of the public, because we provided them space under the Constitution on public participation--- I am trying to follow up on the issue and if I find evidence I will table it before the House. The things that we pass here, if you look at the HANSARD and the final Act sometimes they are not the same. So, you find that we take a lot of time and convince our fellow Members and we actually get an amendment of some Act on the Floor and it is recorded in the HANSARD as such. However, the final Act contains a totally different thing. So, hon. Speaker, I do not know what is in place to track that so that there is sanctity of the work of Parliament and so that other people are not legislating outside Parliament."
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