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    "id": 716856,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Chairman, Sir, if there is a Clause or section that must be deleted, it is this Clause 32. This Senate has been on the warpath demanding recognition, respect and to have everything to do with the protection of counties. Here is one situation where this Senate is behaving like a former Russian president who reformed himself out of office. That president was called Mikhail Gorbachev. Mr. Chairman, Sir, this Senate should not pass a law where the National Assembly is taking away our responsibility under Article 96 of the Constitution as protectors of counties. We have even spent public money to go to court to seek interpretation and opinions as to what our mandate should be. Here we are, because of narrow partisan interests, signing away our responsibility. Who is better placed to deal with the issue of boundaries of wards and constituencies in your county than the Senator? The Senator is above the contradictions of the county and you are most likely not going to be involved in the gerrymandering of boundaries by an MP to cut off an area where people do not like him and pull in an area where people like him, and so on, and so forth, because your constituency is the county. Why are we doing this? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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