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    "id": 580063,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/580063/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 444,
        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Clause 25 - and I will read the first part - says that a person shall not be liable for civil proceedings in respect of publication of any journal by order or authority under Parliament. I am just worried about the law of defamation. If at all something is defamatory, a publication of that very document then becomes defamatory in its very sense. So, I am not very sure what it seeks to achieve by taking away that particular right. Article 27 also speaks to the same thing in that it seeks to take gains that are already made. Right now, we are agreeing that most Kenyans are watching the proceedings of Parliament and this is something that has already been negotiated over time. To seek to take away broadcasting or televising of proceedings of Parliament is taking away the gains that have already been made, especially taking into consideration Article 35 of the Constitution which gives Members of Parliament the right to information. There is nothing we do here in Parliament which members of the public ought not to know. Televising or broadcasting the proceeding of this Parliament does not go counter to privilege issues."
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