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    "id": 852967,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "These two Bills are almost similar in nature intending to achieve the same objectives. When I raised this matter in the HBC, it was considered that it should be considered in the House whether we should proceed with it. My thinking is that Hon. Njagagua could have brought amendments to the Bill that we considered at the time we were considering that Bill in the Committee of the whole House so that we could have captured anything that is in this Bill that was not captured in Hon. Duale’s Bill. I have heard there are some stakeholders who probably wanted a few things to be incorporated in that Bill. In the absence of that, two things can happen. The stakeholders can approach the Senate because the Bill is in the Senate. Alternatively, they can wait for six months to lapse and then Hon. Njagagua can bring amendments to an Act of Parliament that is already in place. If we deal with it, we are going to have two laws in this country that are basically addressing the same thing. I do not think that is prudent use of our time as a House. Further, it brings confusion because then how would you decide which law to use in managing the pension funds of county government employees. I seek your guidance and consideration that this Bill, in my view, should not be considered by this House, if we have to strictly follow our rules. There was a reason why this House decided to put Standing Order No. 49 in our Standing Orders. The main reason was to avoid these kinds of conflicts in terms of legislation. You cannot have two laws which are basically addressing the same thing. What I would do is if I am not happy with a particular law which is passed by the House, I would just change the title and bring almost the same things to this House. 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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