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    "id": 847963,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " The Members are trying to eat up my 10 minutes when I am actually saying that already I do not have the time. Again, it should also provide what minor amendments are. We can use what has been provided by courts to input into that law as to what is considered minor amendment. Because of time, I will not speak to every single Bill that I wanted to speak to. I will just give examples of why I am saying so. I would want to look at, for example, something that may look like a minor amendment. If you look at the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions Act, 2016, which is being proposed to be amended, the only thing that they are talking about is to clarify that the Cabinet Secretary is the Cabinet Secretary relating to matters of culture yet if you looked at the Constitution and even the legislative history of the parent provision in the Constitution, the issue of culture is not about how the Masaai dance. It is about issues relating to intellectual property of our culture in terms of how we protect our intellectual right to kiondos, mwarubaini, the knowledge that my grandfather had on curing snakebites and other intellectual rights. That is not just an issue of culture. It is an issue that should relate to the Cabinet Secretary relating to matters of law, which is the Attorney-General or a Cabinet Secretary on matters relating to industrial property. That is the home of intellectual property. Even though it might look like a minor amendment, it is not. 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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