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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "circulation to all Members register their opposition. For a Motion without opposition, the Speaker sits and it is merely read and the Speaker hammers the table to mean it is passed. Due to the structures of the Standing Orders, we are sometimes compelled to move and debate Motions over which the entire nation through the representatives seated here already have unanimity of mind and consensus in terms of its passage. So, we could reduce that, and maybe include in our Standing Orders that we accept that if there is a Motion on which there is nothing burning from a Member on the Floor, we pass it and focus on Bills and those other matters that are important. This is an important thing. Perhaps, it is also a good time for us, as Members of Parliament, to consider allowing the two sides of Parliament - the Coalitions or the individual parties - to designate particular Members to research in-depth into Bills and Motions so that when a matter comes before this House, the nation is engaged in a proper debate and Parliament can, therefore, pass it. Sometimes it is very sad that we have a very deep issue of law being debated by Parliament, we are seated and you see a lay person really struggling with this issue. We were passing the Fair Administrative Actions Bill last time, an area of law over which we have taken eons of time writing. It goes to the Senate, it is bungled and the time to create a Mediation Committee is too short to readdress it, so that you have a law which ultimately is not speaking to the mandate of the Constitution which Kenyans wanted it to implement. We passed the Courts Co-ordination and Organisation Bill here the other day. Hon. Mbadi while speaking before me indicated that it becomes very shameful for some of us, particularly in legal practice like Hon. Gichigi, to have a very good Bill speaking to a very important issue which is passed with provisions which are nullified by the court as being unconstitutional. This happens despite us sitting in the House. This is also happening because there is no structured way of engaging meaningfully on these Bills. I want to urge the House to identify the laws which are crucial in order for us to move forward. Let us have the best on each side. We should speak to them, research on them and prepare on them. The others can also pick their areas and in unanimity, we serve the nation in this short period. I support all these Motions."
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