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    "id": 1211442,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "For Parliament to even countenance and start talking about it essentially means that Parliament has abdicated its duty as a law-making body. Even though the Motion is coached in such a way that we note or make general comments, everybody will wonder of what value are general comments over a document that illegally found its way into this House. The President, or anybody, cannot make legislative proposals or changes to the Constitution or the law by writing to the Speaker of the National Assembly. The power of the Speaker does not include making laws. We might be here noting and making general comments while making general comments is an illegality. Parliament is becoming part and parcel of the process to usurp the constitutional demarcation between the various arms of the government. We continuously complain that the Executive has muzzled Parliament yet, as Members of Parliament, we continuously allow this kind of situation to remain with us."
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