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    "id": 652884,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/652884/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 981,
        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
        "slug": "priscilla-nyokabi-kanyua"
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    "content": "The amendment seeks to provide for the designation of one of the commissioners as an “Access to Information Commissioner” to oversee the enforcement of the provisions of the Bill once enacted into law. As it is now, the commissioners have many functions, but as they get the new duty on the access to information law, they designate one of their members to be in charge of access to information matters. This has a precedent in many other countries. The Government amendments, which will come in the Data Protection Bill that we are still waiting for, were to create an information commissioner who will then oversee these matters. One commissioner from the Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ) will be dealing with these matters and when the Data Protection Bill comes, we will then harmonise the two. It would be easier handing over to one commissioner as opposed to having the entire commission dealing with access to information. This is an administrative measure. I want to beg the Members to agree to amend Clause 20 to require that the CAJ designates one of the commissioners as an Access to Information Commissioner."
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