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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Wandayi, I think the point you have raised is a valid one and quite pertinent because the IEBC, being a constitutional commission as I would imagine, has been aware of the functions allocated to it, one of which is the one of coming up with the regulations. They have brought them to us today. In fact, was I not reminded otherwise, I would not have approved them for tabling today. What you have just said is that it is important that everybody in the country knows it is not Parliament. It is the IEBC which has sat on its roles and has not presented to this House the regulations. This House, still as you know, has the power to make and unmake laws. So, our Committee is at liberty to give us whatever recommendations they deem fit and necessary in the circumstances of the case. It is fair that since they have come today and somebody was suggesting that Parliament can pass them before Monday 9th. Parliament is also not a miracle worker. Parliament will sit up to the close of business today. Unless somebody somewhere imagines that… Maybe, because they see Members of Parliament in all manner of functions 24/7, they imagine that even when you are supposed to be in your place of worship for our brothers and sisters who are Muslims and the rest of you who may be SDAs on Saturdays and others on Sunday, indeed you should also be passing laws around that time. I cannot imagine. One cannot understand how anybody in their right minds can sit on such important regulations and bring them to Parliament on the very last day. However, without making any particular determination, the Committee of this House, and the House, is at liberty to deal with the Draft Regulations as they find appropriate."
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