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    "id": 897702,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/897702/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "been brought in this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill are very many. I have gone through almost all the Bills except the one that should be of the greatest concern - the Fisheries Management Act. We are not doing justice as Members of Parliament. There are Members who are in the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock who will focus on agriculture and they are confused over one Bill, what about those of us who are focusing on all the Bills? The House leadership must also direct the Executive and force it to follow the law. Some of my proposed amendments are touching on the fact that these laws are unlawful. I do not even go to the substance because they are touching on substantive issues that should not be dealt with by the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments). I am amazed when I hear Hon. Sankok say that people should be punished. Some of us are already punished because I sat and spent days coming up with amendments to these Bills and suddenly they have all being withdrawn. They are being withdrawn in such a haphazard manner that you do not know which one we are operating with or…"
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