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    "id": 477679,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we want to tell all and sundry that the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill is supposed to deal with minor amendments. Those who want to bring comprehensive amendments, the law is very clear on that. You go back to the Act and you bring comprehensive amendments to the Act. This House, and the Committee of this House, are ready under your leadership to deal with that. Therefore, you do not bring a comprehensive amendment in a Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have received a number of memoranda from different stakeholders raising serious constitutional questions on issues of law on the proposed amendments to the Kenya Defense Forces Act and the National Intelligence Service Act. On these ones I have given the benefit of doubt to the competent Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. I have since shared my concern with the Chair of that Committee, and I have even forward to him the issues that were raised by stakeholders. I have no doubt that the Committee, under the leadership of the Chairman, hon. Ndung’u Gethenji, will comprehensively address the fears of the stakeholders at an opportune time before the final passage of this Bill. Finally, on my preamble, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and other committees are at an advanced stage of preparing a reports. I hope they will lay them on the Table next week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday for or hon. Members to prepare their amendments. Those are the issues that I wanted to state; I have written to you and I will lay the letter on the Table for the House’s record. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill----"
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