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    "id": 1034934,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1034934/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "It is in the requirement of our Constitution 2010 that all conventions must be brought to this House for us to pass before the Government assents to them. The purpose is to ensure that at no time should we later in life start complaining about conventions that tie us down even as we try to do our own legislation. This is informed by what used to happen under the Constitution that was given to us by the queen where we would never know the kind of conventions the government entered into, only for us to be informed, perhaps, even in international conferences. We are a signatory to this Convention and for that reason, we need to behave in a given manner. That is part of what this House is expected to do in the implementation of the Constitution. When we say that agencies are not implementing the Constitution 2010... At times you will notice that some of the proposals that were contained in the very first draft of the BBI had a lot to do with implementation of the Constitution as it is today. Perhaps, we did not even need to have brought those recommendations under the BBI. I want to say that this House is part of the agencies required to implement the Constitution. While we are supposed to oversee implementation of the same by other agencies, this House has a lot to play and one of the ways that the House is doing that is by what the Committee, under the chairmanship of Hon. Katoo is doing. That is, ensuring that these conventions are discussed in this House and taken on the whole."
}