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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "It can be unconstitutional if it does not follow the process that is already in the current Constitution before it is amended. It can be unconstitutional because it results in something that does not accord with constitutionalism. If today there was a popular initiative that suggests that we must exterminate one of the 43 ethnicities in this country, as it happened in holocaust and elsewhere, it would be unconstitutional even if it came through this House and was adopted because in substance, it is unconstitutional. In this House, if we decided that the presidency will only rotate in one ethnic group, it would result in that. I am not speaking to the document yet, I am speaking to the theory. Constitutional scholars agree that you can have a constitutional amendment that is unconstitutional. Hon. Speaker, what we have done - professors of law like Hon. John Mbadi are saying it is not true but that is okay because that is their view - I am talking about the law. Hon. Mbadi, you have not stepped in law school and so, just allow me to proceed. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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