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    "id": 847948,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/847948/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "So, that is the essence of these kinds of amendments. Bearing this in mind, in my Committee, some of the proposed amendments in the Bill are not of miscellaneous nature, in that they were inherently controversial and, indeed, elicited quite some debate. Just to quote a few, for example the proposed amendment to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions that seeks to amend the definition of the term ‘investigative agency’ by deleting the expression ‘Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission’. This amendment proposes to remove the EACC as an investigative agency on behalf of the DPP. This is, indeed, a major amendment because you deny the Office of the DPP the benefit of the investigative powers given under the law to the EACC. A case like that goes to the root of a serious provision of the law. In that case, we refused to accept and we proposed that we should not approve that amendment. That is just one of the ones that I say are not minor in terms of the ruling that I have just referred to. The Committee received strong views from the Attorney-General, the DPP, Transparency International (IT), the LSK and the EACC, all of who opposed that amendment. 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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