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    "id": 834315,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834315/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, the opportunity granted at this point is to make comments and seek clarification. When I hear every Member rising in their place to lament about the principle of public participation, quite apart from the requirements under Article 118… Why is it that instead of all Members lamenting, you do not seek the enforcement of that requirement through other mechanisms from those that are involved in making those decisions? This Petition relates to Embakasi West. It is unlikely that the Departmental Committee is going to start seeing Kilifi North, Makueni, Ugunja, Igembe Central and I am sure several other places. They are unlikely to address those issues in this one except to make general observations. Looking at the HANSARD, there was general lamentation by several Members who spoke. Therefore, the people concerned should look into the matter. The point I am making, Hon. Owen Baya, is that we have seen people enforcing public participation only on the legislature such that legislature in both Houses, and, indeed, even at the country levels, cannot fail to observe that governance aspect of our Constitution involving the public. If we do not, there are busybodies who are always out there in the streets. They will be in court. Some of the decisions like these ones are very critical. Even the public ends up getting confused. On one side, they are told Hon. Owen Baya is their Member or Hon. Wandayi is their Member, then they are dealing with some other funny people; administrators. You are calling them assistant chiefs, those kinds of fellows. The public gets confused. Again, Members, it is within you to seek to enforce some of these things. In the meantime, the Petition stands committed to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security to consider it in terms of …"
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