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    "id": 596080,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "On the Kenya Citizen and Immigration Act, 2011 No.12 of 2011, this Bill seeks to amend the Kenya Citizens and Immigration Act to provide basically for an interagency cooperation to matters relating to immigration. It is no longer safe for only one agency. We, therefore, want the immigration agencies to work with the police; intelligence; community; Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government and Parliament in making sure that the people who get our citizenship are the right ones. This will enable us to secure our citizens’ documents from criminals and people who do not belong to our country. The Bill intends to amend the Power of Mercy Act to place the responsibility of implementing the Act on the Cabinet Secretary (CS) responsible for justice. The Bill also seeks to amend the Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Para-Professionals Act to provide for the private sector veterinary surgeons to offer clinical services since the public sector veterinary surgeons do not offer those services. So, the amendment is to bring on board the private sector surgeons in the veterinary profession and give them a leeway to offer their services. The Bill also seeks to reinstate the supervisory and approval functions of the Veterinary Board with respect to accreditation of relevant programmes in universities. This will ensure that the Veterinary Board is the sole institution to accredit relevant programmes relating to the veterinary profession offered at our universities. This will deal with the emerging quacks in the veterinary sector. The Bill seeks to amend the Kenya School of Law Act to provide for the membership of the Secretary to the Commission for University Education (CUE) on the Council of the Kenya School of Law (KSL). This is very important because there are many universities that offer law degree courses. The best person to represent them in the KSL Council is none other than the Secretary to the CUE. The Bill seeks to amend the Treaty Making and Ratification Act to vest the responsibility of implementing the Act on the Attorney-General. It also seeks to involve both Houses in the process of ratification. The Committee will look at the reason why we need to involve the Senate. The Bill proposes to delete reference to the National Assembly and Speaker of the National Assembly and replace them with Parliament and Speakers of Parliament respectively. The Chairperson of the Committee will give us more direction on that. Secondly, the Bill seeks to make the AG’s Office the custodian of treaty instruments and the implementing agent of the Act on behalf of the Government. This is a small and less controversial Bill. As usual in all parliaments, Statute Law is very controversial. However, this year we have used the legislative powers given to this House to deal with matters that we feel are very urgent for the Government and the citizens. With your permission, Hon. Speaker, we have removed the sections on the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) Act and the Universities Act not because of anything else, but because we want the comprehensive law on universities to be brought. With those many remarks, I beg to move and ask the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs who is also the Member for Ainabkoi in Uasin Gishu County to take the Floor and second the Bill."
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