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    "id": 1059990,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1059990/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "I did not attend because I am a promoter of the Bill. I was giving you time to give the Bill justice. This Committee is now claiming to have formed a sub-committee to go and look for experts. They are forgetting that this Bill is through a popular initiative. I and the promoters had engaged experts at length for two years and your directive was very clear: they should table the report on 23rd March 2021. This House should remind the Committee of their mandate. I think there is some confusion. The Committee may have misunderstood the kind of work they were to do on that Bill. When you hear a Committee now saying that they are looking for a Committee of Experts or consultants to advise them on the constitutionality and legality of the Bill, then we are obviously taking a very dangerous path pertaining this Bill. The House must get back to this Bill. I am seeing the House lose this Bill. The first mistake we committed was to have a Joint Committee of Senate and the National Assembly. The Senate normally deals with perpetual issues in the law, burial of permits, chicken dying in the house and such kind of things. The people who would have given justice to this Bill are the JLAC of this House. There is a reason I am saying that. It is my honest request to you, Hon Speaker, as a promoter and a Member of this House that you must give firm instructions that are equivalent to the one you gave earlier, that this Bill must be presented. Article 257 is very clear. They are supposed to handle this matter expeditiously and the House is supposed to vote on it, pass it on a majority vote and not even by two-thirds."
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