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    "id": 851347,
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    "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": "Recently, I was involved in a very big meeting. This was apparently the third security meeting between Ugandan and Kenyan authorities on fisheries and issues of the lake. They raised very many concerns about disparities between the laws of Uganda and Kenya. When there is a clash between the Ugandan authorities and the Kenyan fishermen, they tend to use the Ugandan law. What I had hoped to see, which we had actually agreed on, is amendments that seek to harmonise and bring the Ugandan laws closer to the Kenyan laws. That is not something that can only be done by the Kenyan side; it requires that the Kenyan and Ugandan sides are in harmony before we amend these laws. These haphazard amendments are not good for the Kenyans. I will hopefully have more time to look at them again in-depth because what we are doing here is causerie. Because of the time, I hope to look at them more in-depth. I want to also comment briefly on the Statistics Act. Because of the nature of the presentation and time, it tends to raise more questions than answers. The First Schedule is talking about matters concerning statistics and more so information that may be collected, compiled, analysed, subtracted and published. Looking at the entire list of the things that are provided, I do not see issues of child-headed households, which are of a very big concern especially for me in my constituency – where we have children whose parents have died. Indeed, in my NG-CDF, I have the issue of persons with disabilities and child-headed households because there are households where children are the ones taking care of children. Why do we not take statistics of children heading households? That is a problem we have. Where are the statistics of single mothers? That is a very big issue in every county in this country. I want to comment on the proposed amendments to the Cooperative Societies Act relating to introduction of special funds to support indigenous innovators. On this, I would be speaking especially to the issue of M-Pesa. Every time I travel out of the country – even recently when I was watching Cable News Network (CNN) – I notice two things that are celebrated about Kenya. It is the usual case of the prophet that was celebrated away from home: M-Pesa and NG-CDF. Other countries come to this country to celebrate the work that the NG-CDF is doing, but at home we are even taken to court because the NG-CDF purportedly goes against the principle of separation of powers yet the President is a super legislator. I would not say we have any separation of powers. Having said that, we do not celebrate the real person who came up with M-Pesa. This amendment will acknowledge young innovators who are poor and who do not have the capital or resources they need to come up with such good ideas. Honourable Temporary Deputy Speaker, since my time is up, I support with amendments."
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