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    "id": 837549,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/837549/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "Newspapers of Friday, 13th July 2018, as provided for in our Constitution. This gives me an opportunity to share with you something about public participation. This is something critical that we need to think as a country in both Houses. If the Bill originated from the Senate, as is the case here, then they have done public participation. Why would we go on as National Assembly to do public participation? It is repetitive, in my view. Maybe that calls for us to think about it. That is wasting taxpayers’ money. In fact, you will see that when we called these people to appear in our Committee, they came and agreed with the recommendation of the Senate. This means that it became unnecessary to do public participation as the other House had already done it. This is a debate Hon. Members can debate. It is in my view that we need to agree as both Houses that if a Bill originates from Senate and they have done public participation as required by law, we should not repeat the exercise. This is something that can be debated. However, because of the legal structures which are available that are giving us power to do public participation, my Committee did it. On 13th July 2018, the Committee received memoranda from among others, Central Organisation of Hawkers Association of Kenya, Institute for Social Accountability, the Council of Governors and also the Ministry itself. They appeared before us and we had discussion. However, as I said earlier, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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