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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Bill and congratulate hon. Sang for bringing this Bill. I would want to say, because of time I will be very brief. I want to thank hon. Members because this Bill is very appropriate, especially coming very shortly after the Bill that we passed on psychologists. This one is dealing mainly with the physical aspect and the psychologist one was dealing with the mental state. When you are dealing with issues of terrorism and even our lifestyle as public officers, especially Members of Parliament, a lot of time we are faced with these challenges. Many of us do not know this, especially those that are new, but very soon you will start having problems with your neck, back and other lifestyle diseases because of going to the constituency all the time, riding on rough roads and also because of being involved in campaigns. I just want to suggest to the hon. Member - unfortunately he is not here. There are certain amendments that need to be looked into. I want to thank him for providing that the registrar shall only have five years. That takes into account our youth because we exclude a lot of youth and yet most of the people mature intellectually much earlier. The other area that I would want him to look at and amend is that of gender. In the council, there should be gender representation. Also, in Clause 20(4) and (5) there is likely to be a clash with the Universities Act, because it is giving concurrent mandates between this council and the Universities Council. What you are likely to see is a fight over space; who has mandate to do certain activities that are provided under Clauses 20 and 29. I would urge that he makes an amendment that takes care of gender balance. I want to refer to Clause 33(5) and look at it against Clause 36(3) (c), it is a repetition where you are prescribing punishment for a person who retains a certificate after they have been told to surrender it. In the first one, the punishment is Kshs.20,000 by the council and the other punishment is a conviction of not less than Kshs.30,000 or an imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or both. Those are areas hon. Members need to look at and harmonize. With those few remarks, I support."
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