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    "id": 846627,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. May I also take this opportunity to congratulate you on your appointment as the Chair of CPA-Africa. I have been reminded by the Member of Suba South that it is your election and not appointment. Having said so, I want to say that I respect your ruling on this matter even though I would have wished that you had ruled otherwise. However, having said so and taking us forward, I would want to request that the House do consider… I will give this Bill as an example. We are talking of about 60 pieces of legislations which I have looked at and brought amendments in almost each of the pieces of legislation. In terms of the work, I was in the House and I raised substantially the same issues that Hon. Otiende has raised. Some of the issues are problematic. The day we were discussing this, debate ended early, yet some of us did not have enough time because we wanted to talk to 60 pieces of legislation for ten minutes. This takes away my effective role as a legislator. One of the things I want to agree with you is: It may not necessarily be an issue of how many articles are being amended. I could give you an example of one Article that looks very harmless and yet, it has a very huge impact that sometimes the people in the Ministry may not understand. So, I am suggesting that we either amend our Standing Orders or bring a substantive Bill to help us when we are dealing with 60 pieces of legislation in one. Some of us feel frustrated. When I am doing the amendments, I do not know whether in my amendment I will say... I pity the people who are doing the technical work. I do my amendments alone but on this one, I will just say delete all parts. I will not go section by section because I will take like two months just doing the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill alone. If we have one piece of legislation, I will take about two hours to deal with one. In terms of doing effective legislation, it is very frustrating for Members of Parliament. I wish to seek guidance from your office that the numbers be reduced, so that even if they will bring 50 (miscellaneous amendments), we will reduce them to only ten so that we are not overwhelmed as Members of Parliament."
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