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    "id": 1064976,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1064976/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Otiende Amollo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. In moving this Bill, the Leader of Majority, being seconded by the Leader of Minority, did a good job in terms of elucidating the contents of the Bill. For obvious reasons, they could not have gone to some of the issues that are being raised because they were not Members of the Committee. Most of the issues being raised were actually considered by the Committee. I want to suggest that if we were to be given the opportunity as you had suggested, for the Chairman to take the first opportunity and if you permit, at some point I would be happy to supplement, 90 per cent of these questions are already answered in the Report. I also want to suggest that because this is a constitutional Amendment Bill, virtually every provision is a constitutional issue. Therefore, the line between constitutional questions and substantive debate is very thin. Although you have been invited to make a preliminary ruling on some of these things, I am inviting you to defer your ruling, so that as many things as possible can be raised in the course of debate because some of them will actually be answered in the course of that very debate. This will make your work a lot easier. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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