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    "id": 851407,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/851407/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matayos, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Odanga",
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        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Makokha Odanga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to reiterate the fact that Parliament is a House of debate and order. We are allowing debate on issues as they come up in a way that will help this country move forward. Wherever there are cases outside there, if a judge of a lower court makes a certain judgement, it is still open to appeal. Even if at an earlier time, the Speaker of the National Assembly made a certain ruling and then new information comes up like the one that has come up from the Vice Chair and Chair of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, it is a matter that needs to be looked at afresh. I will not agitate for a case where the Committee said it made certain recommendations to omit certain clauses from the Bill only for those clauses to find their way back into the Bill. Even the Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary responsible disowned the clauses but those clauses are still before the House for discussion. We need to understand, listen and discuss issues that had been ruled out, if there was no sufficient information."
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