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"speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
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"content": "it deserves. It has the possibility of getting multinationals to come in and make money illegally without due process that is respected by ordinary citizens. If you asked a person in the streets whether companies that do business here should be liable in the event of any reason thereafter, for example, malpractice or improper completion of contracts that have been paid and so on, whether such companies must be held accountable, they will agree with you. Therefore, if you gave them a chance to say so, this nation will be voting in favour of the amendment by Hon. Kaluma, wholly. I want to plead with the brilliant lawyers who are in this House to exercise their minds on how to clean up this process to make these companies liable rather than clarify how it is not possible to do it. If we take that route, we will be in fact defending these companies through educated arguments that will not help our nation. I worry intensely that at this time in our country when we have got serious issues of financial management where we are blaming our own citizens at all levels of misconduct, we have allowed multinationals who are criminally liable - they have even been in court in some countries in this continent whose jurisprudence we would quote as precedent – to thrive amongst us and simply get away with it. I think Kenya has reached a point where we must step back and ask ourselves questions. As a Parliament, are we here to defend the interest of the people of this republic or to defend the niceties of laws that hide behind technicalities and allow companies to exploit us? I do support the amendment by Hon. Kaluma and I hope that this House will go the direction of his suggestion. I hope that the committees responsible and the lawyers in this House will put their minds together on how to clean up this process so that companies like this cannot walk out and do so at will. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the amendment."
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