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    "id": 674879,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "An issue has been raised about Clause 32 (a). Clause 32 (a) as drafted will bring problems and should not pass. It says that a person commits an offence if he publishes any false or scandalous libel on a county assembly, its committees or its proceedings. That will be tantamount to gagging the media. That does not belong here. The media is at a stage in this country where they are doing a good job. There is already an Act which the Media Council of Kenya (MCK) went to court on about personal defamation and libel. We need to leave it so that the media can absorb that. We need not pass anything that tells the media that there is no reason to cover assemblies. After all, the service that they are offering us helps the political profile of the assembly and highlights the shortfalls that the assemblies at the local and national level go through. A lot has been said and you have seen the importance of this. We need to moderate the things which border on making assemblies supernatural. I want to repeat and I agree with many Members that in this House, sanctions must apply when we transgress. As this country moves forward, we need to make the constituencies larger, sooner or later. The method of electing us will bring younger and very emotional Members to this House. We will have proper sanctions where if you do something wrong in the proceedings of this House, you will face some consequences. The National Assembly ought to allow those recommendations."
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