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    "id": 1211724,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1211724/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangema, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kihungi",
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    "content": "“Nevertheless, I hold the firm belief that as a President I can indeed and must engage authorised entities like Parliament. Accordingly, the purpose of this letter dear Hon. Speaker is to request the Parliament…” Therefore, what the President has done is to request Parliament to consider his proposal. We can take it or do away with it but the things that the President has put are extremely critical to this country. One way is that we must make our Constitution as a Parliament. The President needs to be somebody who respects and honours the Constitution. For instance, the NG-CDF issue as the courts have put it, looks extremely unconstitutional. However, the mood of the whole nation is that they need the NG-CDF. As the President supports Members and the country to stand with the NG-CDF, he still finds that he is against the Constitution. Therefore, when we entrench it in the Constitution, we are just making sure we have powers to engage the Judiciary on being constitutional. Whenever the President is seeking that we allow the NG- CDF to continue even though there are issues that have been raised, he would be working against the oath that he took to stand by the Constitution."
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