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    "id": 509284,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, however, it is very important to realize that at times like these we need a lot of sobriety in reviewing laws. If we review laws for expediency then we run the risk of making some very serious mistakes. So, I would suggest that one day is not enough publication period. While I am aware the Committee tasked with security might have had occasion to look at the laws beforehand or maybe they played a role in the writing of those amendments, but this is not like what we do out there, where we say so- and-so has read it and so it is okay. It is not the same. This is a very important thing and we do not want to keep on amending laws. We want to make laws that will be there in perpetuity. In fact, it is embarrassing for us that this House passed those laws that we are trying to amend now. Suddenly, they discovered that there was a problem with them. Again, the reason why those laws were faulty was because they were passed in a hurry, in the sense that we had to meet certain constitutional timelines. We hurried through without thinking what we were doing."
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