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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Chris Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Chair of the Committee has spoken. If you internalise what he has said, he is actually against these amendments. He is just shying away from being bold and saying whatever recommendation Hon. Kaluma is putting across, from the technical team of Parliament, he is opposed to it. I serve in the Public Investments Committee (PIC) and the practice has been otherwise. We have had issues of procurement and many international organisations have not had any obligations that they must be registered locally. In fact, I was actually shocked when I heard that this requirement must be there. I know the Companies Act is very recent and this time round we are starting to implement issues of enforcement. We cannot pass this law retrogressively. That is why in as much as it has good ideas, the practice has been otherwise. When you look at the recommendations, they have brought in the issue of the Kriegler Commission. The Kriegler Commission had so many recommendations. So, this particular amendment will be ambiguous. The implementation of the Report will be otherwise. That is why I humbly request that unless there is that specific value added to this recommendation, it will be ambiguous. It will not be implementable and will bring a lot of issues here and there which will not add any value. If we 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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