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    "id": 686328,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Moving to the proposals by our Committee in their attempt to clean up and sieve those provisions, I have issues with the provision of “any other written law”. Speaking as an attorney of no mean repute, any time you make reference to any written law, you broaden the basis for decision-making to an extent that enforceability becomes an issue. You are actually wading into an arena where you could even infringe on constitutional entitlements of the persons against whom you would seek to enforce this provision. On the question of whether the Committee can bring amendments to clean up this Bill before we enact it, it is not about whether or not. They must clean up this Bill before we pass it. I have previously said in this House that we are Hammurabi the Law Giver. We can make, unmake and remake any law at any time and in any way. This Committee has no option but to go back, whether this afternoon or tomorrow morning, clean up this Bill and bring it so that we can enact it tomorrow afternoon. They should bring us a Bill that is clean, constitutional, enforceable, justiciable, one that meets all the tenets of constitutional expectations, can be easily enforced in a court of law and meets requirements for administrative justice. I submit."
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