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    "id": 1017241,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Now that you have said it is one minute, I will just consume the one minute. I would like to say that the Chief Justice only relied on Article 261 of the Constitution rather than looking at the Constitution holistically. Article 259 of the Constitution, as it is written and also stated elsewhere in the same Constitution, provides that if there is a conflict between different language versions of this Constitution, the way you have said, for instance, certain legal jargon, the English language version prevails. That is what our Constitution says. I have read it in English and what I make of this Constitution is that you also have to look at the number perspective of it. Do not just look at the letters and make a decision. Article 97 of the Constitution gives the number of Members that constitute the National Assembly. Article 98 of the Constitution gives us the number of Members that the Senate is made up of. When you look at the way you put the categories of Members together to come up with the numbers, it definitely now means that for you to implement Article 27 of the Constitution, you have to simulate a model through which you are going to achieve the two-thirds gender rule as per what Article 27 of the Constitution envisages. Therefore, Hon. Speaker, I see the Chief Justice trying, maybe, without really being very specific, to revenge or could be he is trying to look at an issue which he would want to express himself on but he is not able. Maybe he was unhappy with the issue of non-appointment of judges. I am saying so because he appeared before the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs where I am a Member and his view on why the judges have not been appointed and his exit from the Judiciary left a mark on us, as a Committee, in terms of how he feels about the frustration he is going through."
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