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    "id": 1066092,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1066092/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Many of us here are frustrated that we cannot change and make amendments to this document, but it is a document by the popular initiative and so be it. However, we can have the chance to have this conversation and where our tasks will be placed as legislators and leaders in this country. There is the issue of what is unconstitutional about the constitutional amendment. I like this sentence. I keep referring to it that arising from the above, these are the observations of the committee, it is evident that an unconstitutional amendment becomes constitutional if it is approved by the people in a referendum. It took me some time to canvass and understand that sentence. There is one or two issues that I brought to the Committee when they were receiving submissions, but later I understood it. When I spoke to several Members of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, I understood what actually this meant. If this Bill is by popular initiative, then by all means, let the people decide, but our role will still remain. We will try and advise as far as possible on the critical areas. Should the Bill be passed by the people, then as a House, we will have a task to go back and look at the critical areas where issues were raised and do what is needful either through legislation or policy, so that we address some of the challenges that clearly have come out based on this report by the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights."
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