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    "id": 1079749,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1079749/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "What I cannot imagine, and Hon. Mbadi has talked about it, is the scrapping of the pre-approval of VAT regulation by the National Assembly. This touches on the core of the constitutional principle of separation of powers. The Cabinet Secretary sits in the Executive but he wants to exercise powers in the Legislature. We should not allow that. Even if the President returns it with a veto power, I urge my colleagues to raise the two-thirds number to reject it. The Constitution has donated powers to the three arms of the Government. Nobody should become a squatter. Nobody should steal the power of another person. It is very dangerous for a CS to sit in his boardroom and vary VAT on various items without recourse to this House. The National Assembly will be guilty. This House will go into record of abdicating its constitutional duty by allowing any other person, including the CS for the National Treasury, to impose any form of taxation, levies and fees on the people whom we represent. This is an affront to the separation of powers. We, as Members of this House, must protect what the Constitution has given us."
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