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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Secondly, within Article 95 of the Constitution, it is the role of this House--- The 349 Members of the National Assembly have a cardinal constitutional duty to look at every Bill and if possible even change its title. The difference between us and the people out there is that they have no opportunity to legislate, decide what is good for the country and disallow what is not good for the country in terms of law making. Hon. Speaker, at the Second Reading of a Bill even a committee chair and his members can pick every concern of the membership and translate it into an amendment for the Committee of the whole House. The genesis of this Bill--- I said it when I was reducing the publication period. This is not an ordinary Bill; it is a Bill that came as a result of the deaths of our countrymen in Mpeketoni, Mandera and elsewhere. We said as a House, let us look at laws, because our business is to look at laws and the Executive’s business is to enforce them. Ours is to find out if there are gaps. If there are deficiencies and challenges in how to provide security to our people and their property, then it is the moral duty of the National Assembly to make sure we look at them. Hon. Speaker, I will, at least, be different from Chair. This is because I had a session with the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and we looked at each of the 22 laws we are amending. We looked at the Public Order Act, Rent Restrictions Act, the Radiation Protection Act, Cap. 243, the National Police Service Act, the Kenya Citizens and Immigration Act – all the 22 laws. I want to tell my colleagues that, as we debate, we should point out the ones that we feel are very good. The ones we feel the Committee and other stakeholders did not do very well, we build a bipartisan approach. Let us save the Constitution, protect the spirit and the letter of the Constitution and provide good laws that will help the Government and the President to make sure that our country is safe and secure. With those preliminary statements, let me now take the House--- I will not touch on all of them; I will give only the highlights. In my opinion and that of the legal team and researchers in my office, hon. Members can still look at what we have agreed or disagreed on, and make sure that even if we will be on recess, we will still come back and make this law. That does not mean that we will circumvent procedure and constitutional processes. I want to make it very clear that it is not the intention of the President, the Executive or the Jubilee Coalition to take Kenya back. There are many people out there who want to go and do many things, but the 349 of us must look at this law in a rational way. In the current situation, this Bill is in this House because it is very important. 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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