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    "id": 718819,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "I am concerned with the National Police Service. I have looked at the areas that we are seeking to amend and my worry is that they are so broad that I think this should have come as an amendment of the Act itself and not in a miscellaneous amendment Bill. That is an area that we will have to look at very deeply because it is looking at very broad areas. If you look at all that, surely, it cannot be done through an amendment Bill. When we get to the Committee of the whole House, we will have to pull out some of these so that they come out as amendments for the individual Acts. I am happy with the Legal Aid Act. I think many Kenyans suffer because they do not get legal aid. It should actually be made mandatory that every person should get legal aid. On the Water Act, it is just reasonable that you do not ask people to pay taxes for using sea water to make salt. With those remarks, I support this Bill, but we will go through it in the Committee of the whole House with fair amount of detail. As I end, I want to repeat that we should make it a process where the miscellaneous amendment Bill is not looked at by one Committee, but by several Committees depending on the Acts that are being amended. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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