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    "id": 477786,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "legislations that were supposed to be taken to other departmental committees for deliberation. So, I do not know why we were rushing legislative proposals which should be in standalone Bills. Did we have to lump them, give them limited time and deny the Committee opportunity to sieve through them so that we get something proper before the House? As it were, this omnibus has passengers that are not supposed to be there. Most of them are supposed to travel alone. Members have talked about the Criminal Procedure Code. We do not need to revise the provision on bail. For me, what we need to do with the Criminal Procedure Code is much more. There is still a lot of dirt, so to speak for lack of a better word, in this legislation CAP.75. As you know, we have reviewed the laws on sedition, but the Criminal Procedure Code still provides on the process of handling such cases. We do not have corporal punishment; the Criminal Procedure Code still has provisions on that. Then it comes as a passenger in an omnibus, it cannot be. If you look at the NIS Act, this one is laughable and it must be debated properly. But before I even go there, in the interest of time, the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act which my friends have alluded to, I do not get the logic why we should give the secretariat all this powers. The Chief Executive Officer is also the advisor of the board, and this a single person. We will be removing powers from a commission and giving them to a single individual, and the appointment of this individual, if you look at the background of it, is likely to make the person grow horns so to speak. These are issues that cannot be debated in five minutes; these are issues that cannot be debated in an omnibus. But I like the Advocates Act, where the Director of Public Prosecutions is blocked from being a member of the disciplinary tribunal. Most of the advocates are today suffering. An advocate of the High Court of Kenya is first of all charged in a criminal court and secondly, he is taken before the disciplinary tribunal of the Law Society of Kenya. At the same time, he is fighting civil cases in court. Obviously, this is something that should be amended. What I am saying is that we have passengers here who can be handled in this piece of legislation. But obviously, others cannot be handled in this piece of legislation. I will be, with your permission, spending the other five minutes of time opposing this piece of legislation. Thank you very much."
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