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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Chairlady, thank you. That was precisely my concern. What we are about to do, read together with the Constitution that says a Member that misses eight sittings in any session may or can lose their seat is something that can be used for witch-hunt on elected leaders all across, including governors, members of county assemblies and many other people. The intention of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) was to rein in on corrupt State officers. Let me also bring it to your attention that on Tuesday, the House Business Committee (HBC) sat and if it was known that this was going to be on the Order Paper, we would have come up with an amendment that takes care of what the intention of Members of this House was. Let me just bring it to the attention of hon. Members that if we pass this thing, then you are “cooked” as Members of Parliament. This is a very bad thing because it was not the intention of what we wanted to do. The rejection by the President of the intention of hon. Members negates--- It brings another intention which was not the intention of this House. If you go to the County Government Act, the then President, hon. Mwai Kibaki - we need time to bring that argument - rejected where we said the governors would be responsible for security in the counties. If you remember that ruling, we then as a House set a precedent which was ruled upon by the then Speaker, hon. Marende, that, if we could amend the intentions of the Memorandum of the President and leave his intention there, because we could further amend this, it would mean something else. But we would also achieve what we wanted and also accommodate the views of the President. 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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