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    "id": 973349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "The Assets Recovery Agency is doing a job that is fairly commendable. The Judiciary has pronounced itself because it was at one time cited as an obstacle to assets recovery effort. The Court of Appeal cleared some of the issues that were murky in an earlier ruling when the EACC went to court seeking to recover assets from certain individuals. I support this Bill and the principle behind it. However, I believe that it can still benefit from additional input from different stakeholders. I do not know whether public participation has been done on this Bill. I believe that this Bill will benefit immensely from a properly structured public participation exercise. Let the public participation on this Bill not be similar to when we post a notice in the newspapers and then go to the Red Cross Building to sit and wait for whoever comes. I hope that the relevant Committee will write actively to stakeholders such as the Assets Recovery Agency, the Financial Reporting Centre and all the other relevant stakeholders. If possible, the relevant agencies should be summoned. I believe that on sensitive issues like this one, we should not just sit and hope that someone will come for public participation. The Committee can compel the production of witnesses or any stakeholder if we feel that it is going to add value to the legislative effort of this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support the Bill."
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