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    "id": 1013192,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1013192/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "I thank Hon. Aden Duale for being vigilant and spotting that, that is a serious anomaly that cannot be correct by subjecting it to a vote. The argument would be that if we are not happy with it, then we disapprove it. But a vote can go either way. So, a provision in the Bill that offends the Constitution cannot be subjected to a vote. Therefore, I urge that if we have to proceed with this Bill, those clauses that may offend the provisions of our Constitution should be expunged first so that we deal with the Bill as if those provisions never exist. Hon. Speaker, you have made rulings on this matter before. You have made rulings where you have clearly stated, especially in omnibus laws, the miscellaneous amendments that we proceed with the Bill as if the provisions that would have offended the provisions of the Constitution did not exist. So, I also want to urge, like Hon. Aden Duale has asked, that this Bill be reconsidered. I want to plead with our Legal Department — I must admit that we have a very good Legal Departmental, they have not disappointed us in many areas and Hon. Aden Duale, who is the immediate former Leader of the Majority Party, and I have praised them before — to be very keen on these provisions in our laws, especially at the pre-publication stage scrutiny, so that we do not end up with provisions in our Bills which offend the Constitution because we may not spot them as we have identified with the ones that have been identified today. I thank you."
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