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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "facilities when they are still alive? Why do you not give them those facilities when they are still active members of the Kenyan society? Why do you not make use of their strength, as experienced former service officers, as a standby force, in dealing with some of the security challenges? It is for this reason that I ask all colleagues to see this as a progressive legislation and accept and make an informed decision that will remove any perceptional conflict between what we are proposing and what we already have. To that extent, I am alive to the great role being played by the serving members of the KDF. Having been the Chair of that Committee and being a ranking Member of that Committee, I say and qualify to say that I will be the first one to defend the interest of the serving members of the KDF and equally defend the interest of those who have exited from that key institution. I am willing, as the Mover of this Bill, to sit with all the individuals with progressive ideas to harmonise and ensure that there is no conflict between what we are proposing and what we already have in the KDF Act. Luckily, I was privileged to have participated in the enactment of the KDF Act of 2012. Therefore, I am alive to the provisions of that Act. When I came up with this particular Bill, I looked at that Act like the Quran. I looked at the Constitution and ensured that there is no conflict between this particular Bill and the provision of the KDF Act of 2012 and the Constitution of 2010. Sometimes experience is very important. To that extent, I can proudly say that I have taken into account due diligence that will ensure that we have the finest Bill in the name of the Military Veterans Bill without conflicting or creating an iota of conflict with existing legislations, whether the Constitution or the KDF Act, or any other law that governs that particular entity."
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