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    "id": 758435,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/758435/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to oppose the Procedural Motion to reduce the publication period from 14 days to one day. When a critical Bill of national importance like this is being introduced into the House, it is important to note that the more critical the matter, the more time it requires. When the Leader of the Majority Party stands and says that he would like to introduce this Bill as it were and reduce the publication period, everybody in the country wonders. At this time, when political temperatures are very high, it is important to take the whole country together rather than just push this for the benefit of the political party that he represents. At this time, this country requires greater leadership than what is exhibited here by the Leader of the Majority Party. What the people of Kilifi North require this country to do like other citizens is that we move together as a country. I read some sinister motives into the fact that just a few people sat down and said that we should reduce it to one day. Everybody is very uncomfortable with one day. We can discuss the period, but not a period of one day. In my understanding, one day does not qualify as a period. A period is a set of days. That is my understanding. I ask that this House rejects this Motion and gives the Bill the 14 days as is required by law."
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