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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak on this Motion. I join other hon. Members of this House who have opposed the proposed reduction of time. There is no good reason that has been adduced for the proposal. Instead, we have been told that since the passage of the Constitution of Kenya in August, 2010, the Commission that is in charge, and the various Government authorities that ought to be dealing with them, have not been dealing with them. May I indicate that there is a good reason as to why the people of Kenya, in making their Constitution, put in a schedule in relation to a number of laws they wanted enacted within set timelines? We are being put in a trap by the bodies charged with facilitating this process, so that we may pass shoddy legislations. The same people out there say that Parliament is passing bad laws, or that Parliament is working at night, or that Parliament is not poring through laws with the zeal that we should have. They say that Parliament is passing laws which are not qualitative. At the time for blame those bodies will not come out and confirm that they share responsibility with us. The trap is that we can be rushed to ignore the ideal of public participation in these processes. This is a practice in our processes of legislation. We want the views of Kenyans. May I indicate that the marriage law that we passed a short while ago enjoyed a lot of public participation, leading to the radical amendments that we ultimately passed? 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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