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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. First of all I want to thank the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for this report. From the outset, I support with amendments. Last week I was in a meeting that was going side by side with the Pan African Parliament. One of the things that was very clear is that as a country we excel in laws. We do a lot of laws and we are way ahead of most of the countries in the region in drafting laws. We are, however, way behind every country in the implementation of the laws. Sometimes when I sit in this House I ask myself whether I should even bother to contribute. However, sometimes I say that I need to contribute because one day the laws might apply to my children or my great grandchildren, but I can assure you that these laws will not apply to us. For the sake of posterity, let us pass them. I say so having gone through an electoral process. What we do as politicians is that we take our excellent laws and throw them aside and then go for campaigns. Anybody who wants to challenge me can do so with facts, but I can assure almost without exception that everybody disregards the laws in this country. It is from campaign materials, campaign financing and so on. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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