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    "id": 503317,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/503317/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I want you to give direction on this trend being set, that if a Bill is voluminous and it is helping the people of Garissa Town, Members of Parliament will say they need three or five years. Hon. Speaker, this is a House of legislation. So, I am telling my good friend, hon. (Eng.) Gumbo, that let us continue with this technical Bill. We will bring all the amendments and agree with our drafters that this is the best piece they have given us. We will get the way forward from hon. (Eng.) Gumbo because in my opinion, it has passed through most able hands of drafters. Our business at this stage is to contribute and, at the Third Reading, make the legislation and even change the title of this Bill. It is within us to change, forget about drafting; we can change it. Finally, I remember the late Mutula Kilonzo, a man I respected in the last Parliament. He brought a Bill from the Cabinet and we changed it. When we finished, he said, “Hon. Speaker, this is not the Bill I brought from Government”. He said this because even the title was changed. Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo, let us forget about the drafters. If you want to change even the title and make this Bill which is amending a Principal Act to be a different law, bring all the amendments that will make this Bill a different Bill from what it is now. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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