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    "id": 861771,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/861771/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, one of the most overriding shortcomings that we have in this country is that the members of public are accorded adequate opportunities to comment on the Bills or to participate in the law-making process. When you talk to members of public, they say the mechanisms that exist now do not offer them adequate opportunity to contribute to the law- making process. A voter in the constituency does not have access to internet and newspapers. Very few have any chance to know that a certain Bill is being debated and due for enactment, so that they can give their views and opinions. Therefore, of all the strong things that I like about this Bill is the possibility that PSC will provide a framework in which we, Members of Parliament, can engage the ordinary people in the law-making process. I envisage a situation whereby when a Bill is published, before it goes to the Third Reading or the Second Reading, we create fora in our constituencies where we can take our members through the proposed legislations, so that they can give us their comments which can enrich debate here and find their way in the Committee of the whole House."
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