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    "id": 7266,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I appreciate your ruling, but while appreciating your ruling, I would want to address myself to two issues and one is the issue of public participation. If you look at the Constitution, public participation is mentioned more than ten times. That mention is not accidental and public participation is one of the four pillars of a human rights based approach to development and legislation. I was one of the drafters of the Constitution and as the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on the Implementation of the Constitution. I am well versed with the history of the Constitution. I was in Bomas and I know that the persons who introduced the issue of public participation were speaking to the human rights based approach. I would want you to address yourself to that issue because if we start on the wrong footing, then we would find ourselves in a situation where we will be having a cosmetic look at the issue of public participation. I would want to invite you to look at the issue about whether there could be a different way to approach the issue of public participation or perhaps whether we need to bring it by way of a comprehensive legislation on public participation that will then clear the air. In the meantime, the way we are going about it would be giving a free ticket to the Minister to avoid the issue of public participation. The other issue that I would want to speak to is the issue of the omnibus approach. Whereas I appreciate the examples that you have given, I want to join hands with hon. Khalwale. I appreciate the experiences of South Africa, but I am not very encouraged by the example of Uganda for obvious reasons, especially, on Migingo. On"
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