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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "the country. We do not want to create a situation where individuals usurp the powers of the Constitution. The other thing that we withdrew, and the Speaker concurred with my Office, were the amendments to the National Intelligence Service and the amendments to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, which, as I earlier said, were not in tandem with what the Commission is preaching. The Commission is talking about reducing the wage bill. Again, the Commission that wants to transform itself from a part time Commission to a full time Commission. Madam Sarah Serem cannot purport to deal with the menace of the huge wage bill in our country and, at the same time, gives herself and her Commission further more permanent powers. We have also withdrawn the Public Benefits Act or the so-called NGO Act. We felt that the amendments in this mother Act were substantive; they were not minor and therefore, we have withdrawn them. Finally, we have also withdrawn the amendments to the Director of Public Prosecutions Act, where we felt that the Attorney-General was trying to take powers of criminal proceedings to himself when the Constitution, 2010, has denied him those powers. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have an amendment that we have withdrawn because we felt it was in the wrong Bill and that was the Public Finance Management Act, 2012. We felt it should have been in the previous Bill which concerns the two Houses and we have also withdrawn that. I am sure hon. Members are comfortable and ready to face this Bill at the Third Reading with various amendments and deletions, as given to them under Article 95 of the Constitution. The function of the Parliamentarians vis-a-vis legislation, representation and oversight; they will use their powers of legislation. With those many remarks, I beg to move that the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill be read a Second Time."
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