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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was rushing from my Office and I was praying that hon. Engineer Chege will continue contributing and give me time to reach here. Having said that, I want to thank Members for ably contributing to this piece of legislation - the so-called omnibus Bill. It is a tradition of the House that every year, the Government brings an omnibus law for minor amendments. The amendments that cannot fit in a substantive amendment to the principle Act can be introduced through this Statute Miscellaneous (Amendment) Bill. Of course, either due to the position of the respective Committees, a number of amendments which we felt through public participation as the leadership of the House that they were not minor and were substantive, unconstitutional and unlawful, Parliament, through my office, decided that we withdraw them and ask the respective institutions or Departments of the Government who use those pieces of legislation to go back and bring substantive amendments to the mother Act. Among those is the Kenya Defence Forces Act in which, even as a Member of Parliament for Garissa Township, when I look at those amendments, I felt that they were not in the interest of 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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