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    "id": 902103,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/902103/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13514,
        "legal_name": "Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol",
        "slug": "jacqueline-adhiambo-oduol"
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    "content": "So, I would want that any time we have opportunity to make miscellaneous amendments we deal with areas, as others have indicated, of semantics or maybe changing or adding a comma or just making reference, as has been done in several areas to existing Acts so that people would know and understand better. We need to be very careful in law making to perceive if there is any mischief, intended or unintended, that would in any way impede or affect those that the law is meant for. Therefore, I would want, as I make contribution, to indicate my very serious reservation and indeed indicate that I oppose this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill for the reasons that have been raised in the Companies Act, the School of Law Act and the Public Finance Management Act. We know that what will happen is that the overall impact of what it is that we would have should we choose then to approve or support it, really would mean that we will in a way have given but then taken back with the other hand. So, I would want to urge that because of the current challenge and the need to ensure that we have the different arms of government not only checking on each other but being seen by the public to serve the intended role, as we make law as has been said by Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal, we refrain from the tendency that we seem to now lean towards where we look as if we do not understand that there is a distinction between what is miscellaneous, which could be a collection of different types that do not touch substantive issues, from substantive amendments which we then would have enough time not only to reflect and debate on but indeed to feel that we have done justice. So, with that, I oppose."
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