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    "id": 637478,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, Members are doing what they should which is to legislate. Even as we do that, we must always carry ourselves reasonably throughout the proceedings. I have two issues of principle that I want to join my learned friends on, the Members for Luanda and Budalangi, in terms of procedure. When a Bill has been published, it means that it has been given to the public to test it and respond. When an amendment is brought to us, such as the ones which have been circulated, and they have not been published for wananchi to participate, it is not right. I am one of the proponents who have had a very critical view of the President when he has vetoed Bills. He has not only vetoed them but has told us the text through which we need to legislate. We are doing what we have been hitting out against. We are passing legislation without the participation of the public. This is wrong. There is need for legislation to go through the entire legislative-making process. If the Members so wish, they can bring an amendment to the Act within six months after passing this Bill, which will be published and which wananchi will have participated in. Number two, in a process such as we have a Committee proceeding is almost sacrosanct. In a presidential system, we believe that the Committee must have had the facts and evidence. If we do not listen to what the Committee had to say on this and without evidence we want to bring it, it becomes a travesty of a presidential system. We should be careful on this. The Committee must have sent a Report which is accessible to all Members. Members must have interrogated that Report and we would have then put this on the Order Paper if that was possible so that we can have some meaningful debate. I am constrained to decline to support these amendments."
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