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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. You know sometimes the challenges of technology… I have been here for quite a while and since I was preoccupied, I only realised now that my system had gone dead. I think we need to look at the systems around here because they keep misbehaving. I want to congratulate Mr. Okiya Omtatah for doing a good job. I know he has a love- hate relationship with Members of Parliament. There are times we love him for what he does and there are times we hate him in equal measure. I think that is the kind of love-hate relationship that the House has with civil society. But the civil society, just like Parliament also has an oversight role in terms of the work of the Executive. Therefore, I want to say in terms of the history of this Bill that we passed it in the Tenth Parliament. I was a Member of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee and I chaired the subcommittee that brought amendments to this Bill. So, I worked very intimately on this Bill. I can say that the thinking around this Bill at that time was that our country had just come from a very bad past where we had killed one another. We had lost over 1200 people and many people had been displaced. There was also a lot of negativity in the country. So we brought this Bill when Hon. Martha Karua was the Minister for Justice so that we could bridge that gap. The 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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