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    "id": 603469,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. At the outset, let me thank Hon. Nyokabi for bringing up this Bill. After a long struggle as she put it when moving the Motion that this Bill has been trying to get to the Floor of this House through former Members of this august House and it has been an uphill task. At last, it is here with us. I congratulate her for having made that effort. It is up to us Members of this 11th Parliament to join hands and see that this Bill sails through and put it into law. That will be a big landmark for her, this House and the country for which we pass these bills and laws, and especially the common mwananchi who has been in the dark or who does not know exactly what is happening because of the bureaucracy which has been there since independence. We are not in the days of colonialists where everything in this country was surrounded by secrecy; where everything was almost in the domain of those people who knew or mattered; and the general public who were the recipients of those services; or people who needed it most or who had the democratic right to be given that chance to know what was happening had been in the dark and had been the ones who had been on the receiving end and had been the ones losing. As a matter of fact, if one is not informed and is ignorant, anything can happen. If you know there are elephants in the forest and you just work towards that forest ignorantly, the chances of losing your life by being thronged on by those elephants or a lion that might be inside is very high. If you are informed, you can go there cautiously and know when to cross that forest. Therefore, information being a source of power is a right to every Kenyan. I support this Bill because if information is disseminated the way it should be, the right people who need it, it will assist in disclosing so many things in this country."
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