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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. That is interesting. I do not know if you are aware that Members who want to contribute to Order No. 8 press the button at Order No. 1. More often than not, you call people who are not interested in the Order. I think that needs to be known by Members as being unfair. I rise to contribute to this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill and I want to be very brief. The main issues which have been alluded to by the speakers before me are important. I think this is one Bill that we can use to clean up the messes in many Acts. The tendency by people outside this Parliament to sneak in things which are not good or uncomfortable and have been passed by this House is very dangerous. Some of us have been here for a long time and it has always been the same story, and you know that. I thank the Leader of Majority Party for being sensible to have withdrawn those other intended amendments to laws. The one that has been contributed on by hon. Maanzo and hon. Wandayi is fundamental because Article 27 of our Constitution contemplates freedom from forcible angle. I do agree and I understand the frustration of Government. I do agree that we have criminals that the system cannot do anything about, but the law says that you must free them within so many hours. I understand that challenge. That challenge can only be cured through a constitutional amendment. I keep saying that away from the noises of the opposing political parties, we will at one day sit down and talk about the wrong things in this Constitution. One of them is this particular one. As hon. Wandayi has said, two wrongs do not make a right. It means, the sooner we look at what is going on, the better. The audit team that this House has allowed to commence work, I hope will do its work soon enough so that we can sit down and do a select Committee of this House to begin to look at these things. For the moment, I would plead so that we are not at variance all the time. Kenyans have a very short memory, before 2002 these freedoms were not there. 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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