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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. I am just concerned about this new procedure of Members donating their time and not the Speaker giving chance to Members. I am also concerned about the issue of ranking. You are a lawyer and you understand ranking. It applies in the court corridors. It must apply in this House. I want to support this Bill because Parliament has come a long way with this Bill – from Joe Donde to Jakoyo and Hon. Jude Njomo, who has been very consistent. I thank him for that. With the Atieno‟s and Wanjiku‟s on this world, it is a very popular law but very unpopular with the banking sector. We must, as Parliament, make sure that we do what is right for the ordinary Kenyan, especially going by what we see globally. We see a rise of xenophobia in other countries; we see very unfavourable immigration laws in other countries. In the past, when we had Kenyans who were capable and were not absorbed into this country, many had to go to other countries. We must, as a country, fix our nation. We must be able to employ people both in the formal and informal sectors. Many Kenyans are self-employed through SMEs. For them to do that, they must be able to access loans at favourable interest rates. I disagree with Hon. Tong‟i on what he said while speaking earlier on. A lot of Kenyans take loans to fund their social life, buy suits and that kind of thing. Of course, there are few misguided people who will take loans to marry second wives and buy suits but on the whole, Kenyans are really struggling and suffering. When people take loans, they do so to enhance their businesses and not for those other reasons. If you look at this law, after the Jude Njomo law was passed, there was a court matter Boniface Oduor vs Attorney General & another, Court Petition 413 of 2016. The two primary things that the court decided on was whether Section 33B (1) and (2) of the Banking Act were constitutional for being vague, ambiguous, imprecise and indefinite. What this law seeks to do is make those provisions precise. The other issue was that it declared Section 33B (3) unconstitutional for being discriminatory, especially with regard to the penal provisions. Again, this Bill seeks to cure that problem so that we do not have a case where we have discriminatory provisions or where the capping is not very clear. I know I will not say much because we have a short time. I support. Since the House had spoken to this issue, what we are doing is clearing what the court said. I do not think there should be much. Every Member who has spoken to this Bill has chosen to stand on the side of Wanjiku and Atieno. I support and congratulate Hon. Jude Njomo. If he has not yet won one of those 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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