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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "of how you dress when coming to the House or qualifications in academic circles or sports? It is not clearly defined. This “Kenya qualifications framework”, which the Bill also seeks to underscore, is not defined in the Bill. What is this Kenya qualification framework? It is all not there. Hon. Speaker, let me end by saying that we are running the risk of becoming a country of laws which are not being implemented. It is becoming too routine particularly at the level of delegated legislation. Every small problem we are faced with as a nation today, you hear a Cabinet Secretary has thrown some regulations or rules. Look at what is happening to the road transport sector, Members and colleagues, every single problem, you have a regulation. Now we have the night travel ban and of course, cumulatively, we do not question what these things are doing to the country. But it is very serious. I traveled by road through Narok the other day and this thing called night travel ban has killed all trading centres along the transport routes. You will remember that the manifestos of Jubilee and CORD promised a 24-hour economy. We have rendered people jobless from the ocean at Mombasa across the country to the north. If you pass through Narok today at around 8.00 p.m., it is total darkness. It is a ghost town. Pass through Voi, Mtito Andei and the transport corridors, we have killed towns. We are rendering people jobless simply because we do not want to think seriously of how to implement laws which already exist. We are thinking of how to rush with new laws to deal with the problems, whether real or imaginary. I oppose this Bill and pray that the Members take time and look at it keenly and confirm that, at the very best, this Bill is premature. It is not yet ready. It does not speak to anything that we should legislate. I beg to oppose."
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