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    "id": 451007,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/451007/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
        "slug": "kajwang-tom-joseph-francis"
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    "content": "Legislative Department at the State Law Office cannot wind up because, perhaps, it is doing some advisory role. Legislation must now come through the Kenya Law Review Commission, in consultation with the Leader of Majority Party or any other Member for that matter who wishes to propose legislation. This is why we come up with this kind of hydra-legislation. You can see that the Leader of Majority Party is struggling with some portions of this Bill. It can only mean that he was not fully consulted on the content of this Bill and, therefore, we may have legislation which is championing the interests of some people in the Government or bureaucratic people outside there in those offices. But when proper pieces of legislation come before us, I think, perhaps, it may need the direction of the Speaker because we are learning the Presidential System. When we receive legislation like it happens in the United States, let that legislation be brought but be owned by Members sponsoring the Bill like the Leader of Majority Party. But with full consultation from that Member, so that you do not have a Member having problems with the Bill that he himself is proposing before the Assembly. So, I beg, perhaps at a later time, you may want to give directions and educate us really and those offices up there that are involved in legislative making, that it would be preferable if legislation came from the Law Review Commission with consultation of the Member responsible and, thereafter, the parliamentary legislative office. That way, we are able to own our legislation. But I want to join my colleagues and support what they have said before on specific issues, in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, particularly on the fact that this legislation proposes so many things but, at the end of it, creates one clause which repeals legislation. That has never been known in a legislative practice, where you can repeal a whole legislation just by a deletion in a statute law. I thank you so much and I oppose the Bill."
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