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    "id": 714684,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am a ranking member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. Until recently, I was also the Fourth Chairperson of Committees. So, you can trust on my honesty on the words that I want to say. Let me relate the sequence of events so that we help each other to understand where we are. There has been a raft of amendments and Bills which have been churned by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. One of them is the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 3 of 2015). When this matter came before the House, it went through the motions until the point at which it was in the Committee. By your own wisdom, you stood down this Bill, having made a reasoned ruling to allow the reconstituted Joint Select Committee to do its job. If you look at the original Bill and the amendments that the Committee proposed – because there was a Report we brought to the House – it is there in the annals. Anybody can read it. You will not find this proposal. I challenge anyone to look at the Report which was tabled in this House and look at all the amendments, to see if there are any provisions that touch on what we have here today. But, fair enough, the Joint Select Committee made proposals, which were presented to this House and which the House transacted in the manner we did. Hon. Speaker, I want to urge Members to see how this thing is being quoted. We are on a recommittal trying to recommit that which was stood, but bringing new proposals entirely which were neither in the Report nor in the original Bill, but under the pretext that they are amendments on re-committal to stand the test of these amendments being sought. But worse, some of them are one or two words amendments. The specific ones which are purported to have come from the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs are new clauses; meaning they are new pieces of legislation."
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