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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, in making their statement last week, they made a very atrocious statement. One of the things they said is that they are going to shut down and disband the Senate; that they are going to file a petition in the court to dissolve the Senate. I would ask the CoG to read the advisory judgement which arose out of a matter they had filed themselves in the Supreme Court. I want to say from the Floor of this House, there is no provision under the Constitution that you can use to dissolve the Senate. There is none at all. You can dissolve Parliament and those provisions are contained in Article 261 (5), (6) and (7). I want to repeat just in case the governors continue to make those statements that if Parliament fails to enact any particular legislation within the specified time; it is not about the resolution under Article 217. In making that resolution, we are not enacting legislation at all. They should be aware of that distinction. In fact, in Paragraph 91, the court made this clear. They said this: - “In this regard, we would have had no hesitation to invoke the provisions of this Article 261 of the Constitution had the Division of Revenue Act been one of the legislations unequivocally or at least tangentially included in the Fifth Schedule.” They said they would have done it if it was one of the Bills that are contemplated in the Schedule. I want to tell them that it is impossible for them to dissolve the Senate in these particular circumstances. Article 217 makes it possible for us not to have an impasse. This is because Article 217(7) says that when there is no resolution, the previous The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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