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    "id": 579566,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/579566/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support this amendment. Even as I support it, I think the Committees and the leadership of the House are being unfair to Members. This is because some of us were actually on the process of preparing amendments to this Bill. It will be important if we are notified. We did the Second Reading of this Bill only last week. This Bill and the Business Registration Service Bill were done last week. Sometimes, if you do not know the timelines, then you really could not give your priorities. Even as we give powers to the Cabinet Secretary, please let us take steps to make sure that problems such as the one we had in Owino Uhuru slums in Mombasa are not repeated. Sometimes people come with intentions of declaring special economic zones only to end up harming our people. I really think that we, as a country, must be alive to these problems. For instance, in Owino Uhuru slums, over 3,000 people were affected merely because someone, under the guise that he was establishing an export processing zone, did not take into account the environmental impact assessment and even the lives of the people living in the neighborhood. Otherwise, I support."
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