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    "id": 900351,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/900351/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "May 8, 2019 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES ____ 24 Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
        "slug": "kajwang-tom-joseph-francis"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, you are doing a very good job this evening. We are trying to follow with this new equipment called the e-system which does not help much because it has the Order Paper, but it does not have the Bills and the parent Act. Without those things, even when we are going electronic, I am not so sure whether we are capable of being there. The Leader of the Majority Party is trying to keep track with legislation. For example, in Section 167(4)(b), there is no proposed amendment but when you consider the new provision in sub-section 5, these are some of the things which will pass us and we may end up – although there is no amendment proposed – having a disastrous law. It says that the section shall not apply to tenders reserved for women, youth, persons with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups. This is alright because it is speaking to 10 per cent which is paid on review, but when sections like these talk about “other disadvantaged groups”, what are these groups? This is the problem because if we went slowly, probably the Leader of the Majority Party would have done a further amendment because this is new. Even though he has not put it in writing, he could have suggested that we should have stopped at “persons with disabilities”. When we talk about any other disadvantaged groups, we have now opened this thing to abuse. Anybody else including me who comes from Suba will be a disadvantaged group including the Member for Kikuyu. He is a very disadvantaged group because in Kikuyu, they cannot speak fluent Luo as I do."
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