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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. With regard to the first proposed amendment, in law, the term “a person” incorporates both a natural person as well as a corporate body. Whether or not you insert the word “body”, even a company can be found to have committed an offence. Secondly, and I hope the Members are going to listen to this, it is important for people to understand what the amendment proposed to delete Clauses 42 (1) (d), (g) and (h) means. How would you criminalise conduct such as the one in Clause 42 (1)(d) which states: “A person or body who fails to comply with any lawful order or direction of the Agency”? If Parliament creates a law saying that any person who does not comply with any lawful order of a parliament commits an offence, it would mean that if a driver is told to pick bread somewhere and he fails to do that then he will be committing an offence. Offences must be very specific. Clause 42(1)(g) states: “A person or body who in any way interferes with the functioning or operations of the Agency”. This means that if anybody closes the gates of the Agency then 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."
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