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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make the Statement I am about to make on behalf of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC). I rise under Standing Order No. 43(2) to seek leave to raise a matter of national importance with regard to implementation of the Constitution. You will note that CIOC is mandated to, among other things, oversee the implementation of the Constitution and in particular pass legislation required pursuant to Article 261(1) of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution. To this effect, the Committee has had a series of round-table meetings with various stakeholders, specifically the Office of the Attorney-General (AG), the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) and the relevant Ministries. In most of all the meetings, the CIOC has had the relevant Cabinet Secretaries (CS) under whose mandate the required legislation fall, and who have also given undertakings before the Committee to have the Bills prepared for tabling before Parliament to enable this august House to enact laws within the period specified under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution. During the 15th meeting of the Committee held on 10th July 2015, the CIOC met with various CSs, the Office of the AG, the CIC and the Kenya Law Reform Commission (KLRC) with a view to reviewing the status of Bills which are required to be enacted by 27th August 2015, which is exactly 30 days from today. The following Ministries were represented:- Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, the National Treasury, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, and the Ministry of Devolution and Planning. In that meeting it was agreed that the various CSs under whose mandate the following Bills fall were to forward the Bills to Parliament on or before today, Tuesday 28th July 2015. The Bills are: (i) The Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions Bill, 2015; (ii) The Agreements on National Resources Bill, 2015; (iii) The Forest Bill, 2015; (iv) The Community Land Bill, 2015; (v) The Physical Planning Bill, 2015; (vi) The Minimum and Maximum Land Holding Acreage Bill, 2015; (vii) The Investigation and Historical Land Injustices Bill, 2015; 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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