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    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was not in any way trying to challenge the decision and the direction given by the Speaker, I was just taking up from what the Aldai Member of Parliament spoke about a few minutes ago in terms of the roles of the Committees in this House. We do not act on our own, every Committee sits on behalf of this House. It is a subset of this Parliament. So, when a Vice Chair now says the same thing, then it sends the question in terms of the ownership of this Bill. If the Committees sat with the Principal Secretary and the Cabinet Secretary and they felt that they do not own the amendments, then who owns them? That is a question we are all running away from and I think we need to address it. I also agree with Hon. Millie Odhiambo who talked of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill and omnibus amendments. We know it is not illegal to put them in one document but it is totally unfair for the Members of this House to go through 10 pieces of law and bring amendments. What you are seeing us do now is picking just one that we think touches on us and addressing it because in five minutes, you cannot go through everything. Let me just address one that is very critical to me - the issue of Cooperative Societies Act. I definitely do not support any amendment that has come through this Bill, the way it is authored right now. The reason I say that is because if you look at page 412, this introduction of social 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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