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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. Deputy Speaker. I would like to raise a point of order in relation to the Victim Protection Bill, which does not appear on the Order Paper. I have had an informal discussion with hon. Jakoyo Midiwo, who sits in the House Business Committee. He told me that the issue was raised at the House Business Committee and that the Committee directed that the Bill comes up for debate next week. It is important that I put it on record that the matter was raised last week and the Speaker had directed that it comes up for debate this week. I appeared before the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs in relation to this Bill when the Witness Protection Agency was supposed to come but they did not come. Last Thursday, I went and saw the Head of the Witness Protection Agency. They have given me their amendments because the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is taking its time. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the import of my point of order is that the Vice- Chairperson of the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs has indicated twice to the House Business Committee that they have consulted with me when, indeed, they have not. It is not in order for a whole parliamentary committee to misinform and mislead the House. The procedure is that when you want to delay a Member’s Bill, you do so in consultation with the hon. Member. If they had consulted me, I would have told them that because they were taking time, the Agency had already given me their amendments. The Government side, led by the Leader of Majority Party, has no problem with my Bill. So, I do not know why the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is fascinated by this Bill. Can, they, please, just let my Bill be?"
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