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    "id": 1108704,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1108704/?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": "Hon. Speaker, the Leader of the Majority Party is out of order to mislead this House that we are raising a matter of constitutionality under Articles 10 and 118 of the Constitution and Standing Order No.126. Hon. Otiende Amolo raised other provisions in law and we are now at the constitutionality of a piece of legislation before the House. So, you cannot bring the issue of precedence. The Leader of the Majority Party needs to guide us. I am a ranking Member. I must say it, and this has been so. Even in other jurisdictions, the issue of precedence arises when there is no express provision in the Standing Orders to address the matter. That is why you refer to what happened, say, in the USA on a similar matter that is not provided for in our Standing Orders and the Constitution in your own rulings. Lawyers will tell us that the courts use previous judgements and other reference materials authored by professors of law schools. The matter before us is whether the Health Laws (Amendment) Bill is constitutional. We are raising the unconstitutionality of it. So, the Leader of the Majority Party must restrict himself to that aspect and refrain from taking us through the sideshows of practices and precedence."
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