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    "id": 654727,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. It looks like Hon. Ababu has the answer because he belongs to that Committee. Just like Hon. Gumbo, I was wondering why there is no prescription of the penalty. Ordinarily, every piece of legislation is self-contained, particularly clauses similar to what we are dealing with. If you prescribe a penalty, you do not say “a penalty prescribed in this law.” There are many penalties that are prescribed in this law. It is not standard. If you say that somebody will be sentenced to a maximum of five years’ imprisonment or fined Kshs1 million, it should be self-contained because you have already prescribed the offences. Why are we not prescribing the penalty too, so that we have a self-contained clause or section?"
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