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    "id": 94009,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/94009/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you will appreciate, there are two human rights commissions. There is the KHRC which is a stand-alone civil society activism group and there is the KNCHR which is a Government-funded organization. The Government-funded organization has been very responsible and has not got itself into the kind of situation that the other one has got itself into in terms of misinforming the public. When I mentioned that in 2001 we established a structure for engaging the members of public and the manufacturers, that structure did not exclude the civil society and, indeed, all the people who are very involved in these matters are EcoNews, Oxfam, ActionAid, CAATS, the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM), the Chamber of Commerce, the Flower Council, Fresh Produce Association, the Private Sector Alliance and the Fish Producers Association. All those people are part of our negotiation process and we sit together. The human rights people use the same information they obtain from the meetings they attend to distort and then write out the advisories that they sent out there. What I would like to encourage the House and, indeed, the public is to ignore any communication on EPAs that does not emanate from the Government. That is because it is being designed to create mischief among the exporting community and producers, but without any seen benefit for this country."
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