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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I will be very brief. I rise to second the Motion. This particular Motion does not need a lot of debate. This is basically a procedural Motion. I only wanted to say one or two things. The first one is to the executive. We are here in our numbers to try and keep the process of implementation of the Constitution alive and kicking. It is only a plus to us, but it is a negative to the people whose responsibility this is. Hon. Members and the public may wish to know that these Bills should have been here. We have had to bring them here since 2010, but most of them are not here yet. Some of the ones we have are even in draft form. Therefore, we want to extend the period; we want to ask our colleagues to give the Executive more time to forward the Bills. But we want to tell them that even the ones we have passed as Private Members’ Bills should be operationalised. Hon. Speaker, going back to 2012, it took me a couple of years to come up with Consumer Protection Bill, which has met the requirement of Article 46 of the Constitution. The President assented to that Bill in 2012 and up to today, it has never been operationalised, leave alone formation of the body provides for. We want to ask the Executive to work with us for the betterment of the future of our country. 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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