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    "id": 871973,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/871973/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Koinange",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Koinange",
        "slug": "paul-koinange"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this report contains the Committee’s proceedings during the consideration of the National Flag, Emblems and Names (Amendment) Bill, Senate Bill No.8 of 2017. With regard to participation, the Committee wishes to confirm that the Clerk published an advertisement on print media inviting members of the public to present submissions and memoranda on the National Flag, Emblems and Names (Amendment) Bill, Senate Bill No.8 of 2017. The Committee having considered this Bill will be proposing amendments. In consideration of the Bill, the Committee recommends the following: One, there is need to only limit the flying of the flag to substantive office holders as provided for under Section 4(a)(ii) of the Act. The Committee observes that the office holders listed in the Bill, that is, the Deputy Speaker of the Senate, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and the Deputy Chief Justice deputise the substantive office holders. In the perspective therefore, they only exercise the authority of the office holder in the absence of the substantive office holder. Two, there is need to limit persons authorised to fly the flag, other than the President, to fly only one flag at any given time. Three, there is need to allow Kenyans to fly the flag during national holidays, at business premises, residential places and on a motor vehicle as a sign of patriotism if they so wish. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We should respect our symbols of national unity including our emblems, flags and national anthem because these symbols epitomise our freedom; freedom for which our forefathers shed blood; freedom for which some of us suffered as children and freedom that we must guard jealously. By respecting the national flag and other symbols, we pay tribute to the sacrifices and struggles that our freedom fighters made in order for us to reach where we are today as a nation. Whatever these national symbols stand for was written using our freedom fighters’ lives."
}