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    "id": 626677,
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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": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. This particular proposal covers a person or an institution with expertise in the area of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) engaged by the service to specifically conduct an ADR. What Hon. Okoth may not know is that we have accredited ADR system in this country, be they arbitrators, mediators or members of the chartered institute of arbitration. Those are the persons who are intended by this provision as opposed to legal service aid providers. The legal aid service providers would be Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). On matters of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, we have other persons in the legal profession who are allowed to serve as arbitrators and mediators. Those are the ones who are intended by this particular section. The amendment by Hon. Okoth will, therefore, not be adding value to what was envisaged by the Bill – which was to bring in the ADR experts. The country has increasingly had very qualified arbitrators, mediators and conciliators. I would urge Hon. Okoth to drop the amendment. If he does not drop it, the Committee will be opposing it because legal aid service providers already have many other roles provided for them in this law."
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