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    "id": 653082,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/653082/?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",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. On (c), which is on the definition of “person”, I am convinced. It is particularly speaking to the judges who have decided to interpret “person” to mean a natural person. That introduced a whole new concept in law that was unknown. In a country where we need to interpret the law progressively, “person” must mean natural and incorporated persons in our country. We hope the judges will get that. That is why we wanted to put it here. The few judgements that have come up have been moving in the direction of vindicating the idea that “person” only means a natural person. On CEOs in parastatals or Government ministries, there is no doubt in anybody’s mind that our Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) remain political heads of institutions. The administrative head has always been the PS. The buck must stop somewhere. In this amendment, it stops at the PS. We should keep the definition of a CEO and drop that of “person.”"
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