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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this amendment to the Public Trustee Act. Many speakers, my colleagues, have talked about the same. This country is governed by laws, the Constitution and rules. It is the highest time now as a Parliament to come in to save our people, because it is long overdue. Many people have died before getting their dues. Even the trustees who are put there also live long, follow the process and finally die. As Parliament, first I think we need to come in fully because we have ignored this, or maybe we were not interested. It is the highest time we follow this because it is for the benefit of our people. Why am I saying this? We have the Ministry for Labour which deals with this. It is only because of the change in the Constitution that may affect this Bill. It is now time for us to call the Principal Secretary for Labour. Earlier on, before the new Constitution, Ministers used to appear on the Floor of the House to answer a question like this and gave answers as to why they always delayed to pay this money to the owners. However, the Ministry is not dead. It is there. We can call the Minister concerned through the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare to come and tell us their plans on how they will hasten the payments to the people. Also, the issue of people coming all the way from Bungoma to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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