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    "id": 564589,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I would like to request the Chairperson of the Committee to relook at this amendment for two reasons. The first thing is that they are proposing to have public participation before the review. In my understanding, first, if you look at the words they were substituting earlier on they were “public consultation.” So, they have not attempted to define what public participation is. Secondly the words “public participation” are fairly very contentious. We do not know what public participation means because there is no single law that has defined what public participation is. Therefore, to just leave the words “public participation” without defining this in this Bill and couching it this way might give us more problems. We have just had a similar problem with public participation with regard to the Education Act where various stakeholders wanted to be consulted. We do not know how definite that public participation could go. I do not know whether she could think through it. Thank you."
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