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    "id": 603405,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "In the year 2000, Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi then a Member of Parliament brought to this House a Private Member’s Motion to be allowed to introduce to introduce the Bill. That happened. The House upon hearing Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi agreed that indeed an access to information law was important for our country. In 2002, before this Bill could be brought to the Floor of the House, we had an election. So, the Motion lapsed. In 2003, the constitutional review exercise started in our country. The constitutional review exercise was critical in many respects. The old Constitution or the Independence Constitution, in Article 79, provided for freedom of expression, including the right to receive information. However, that Article did not allow citizens to seek information from the Government. That was a problem. The old Constitution assumed that the citizens would just sit back and wait for the Government to give them any information it wanted to give them. The citizens were merely recipients of information. In the constitutional review exercise, this needed to be changed. The Bomas Constitution Draft of 2004 included and protected the right to information. It contained very express provisions, giving Kenyans the right to seek information from Government and from any other source. The Wako Constitution Draft of 2005 also protected the access to information. As we all know, in the Referendum of 2005, we lost the entire Constitution Draft, not for the reasons of access to information but for many other reasons. In 2006 Professor Anyang’ Nyong’o, then a Member of Parliament, introduced another Motion to bring to this House the access to information law. Professor Anyang’ Nyongo’s 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."
}