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    "id": 821475,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/821475/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I rise under Standing Order No.53(3). This particular amendment Bill proposes to amend more than 60 laws. Up to the point when the debate was concluded, not more than 20 Members had spoken to it. I seek your indulgence that under this particular Standing Order, you allow the House to continue debate on this Bill at a time that you will suggest because the Standing Orders are very clear that it can only be on the following day. This is so critical in the sense that members of the public presented their views on this amendment Bill but a number of chairpersons of various Departmental Committees have not gotten a chance to speak to this matter and express themselves on the views of the public that were harnessed during the time of the public participation. I am saying this and I can see most Members are trying to belittle it. It is a very critical matter. In the past in this House, we have seen how matters of immense interest and serious implications have been passed in the form of miscellaneous amendment bills. I just want to plead with you that you give the House a second chance because we are not going anywhere. We are not rushing to any other place. This House has the time to debate this very important Bill appropriately and conclusively. I wish to seek your indulgence."
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