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    "id": 848018,
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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. They are not the sugar people. They are the Members of Parliament dealing with the sugar matter. They are busy with amendments but little do they know it is the House that will ultimately decide the fate of that Report in either way. The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2018 was introduced in the House for the first time on 18th April 2018. I want the Member for Funyula to listen. This Bill was subjected to serious public participation. It was put in the newspapers. If you pick a copy of the Report of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, you will see that there was serious public participation. All is not lost. This is just the Second Reading stage. We will have an opportunity to deal with amendments. The Member for Funyula is serious when it comes to the Committee of the whole House stage. This is a very important Bill. It has stayed in the House for the last four months. I am sure that this afternoon, the Members who are present subjected it to serious public participation giving their views and preparing amendments. The Member for Funyula was calling it a Bill. He said we are dealing with 59 Bills and I was getting irritated but they are 67 Acts which are either in one way or another - in a very minor way - being corrected. I am sure the House Business Committee will give the House until next week Tuesday - which is seven days - to prepare amendments and then table it during the Committee of the whole House stage. With those many remarks - so that we give a chance to the Members who are dealing with the sugar to tell us why they came back to the House - I beg to move."
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