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"speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, given the level of consultations that have taken place on this Bill, and the way it has been crafted and the need to have it passed in a faster time as possible and without having to change it materially - which is the tendency we have seen of late especially on most of the amendments that come on the Floor - I would like to take this opportunity to urge this House and my fellow Members that we look at the work that has been put by all the experts that have looked at this Bill and give it a clean bill of health as it were. Let it pass almost as it is. If there are some commas and typos to be corrected, let us concentrate on those, but we leave the subject as it is because as you know, immediately we start opening up on section by section and putting amendments without looking at the holistic impact of all those amendments, we could end up with what the management experts would say: âA committee was given the task of designing a horse and ended up coming up with a camel because they could not quite agree on who does what, where to put the hook and where to put whatever else.â I do not want this Bill to be converted from what it is. We want a horse but we could end up with another animal that we cannot quite associate with."
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