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    "id": 1227187,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaruma",
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        "id": 13223,
        "legal_name": "Johnes Mwashushe Mwaruma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to oppose this Motion that calls for changing of Standing Orders to include Wednesdays as part of our calendar, and inviting CSs to come and contribute or be part of this House. Madam Temporary Speaker, for starters, I recognize the fact that from my experience in the last Parliament, it has been extremely difficult to get some of the CSs to come and answer to Statements and Petitions from Members. However, because of that difficulty, we tried to amend this Constitution through Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), but it went the way it went. What we are trying to do now is to amend the Constitution through the back door by amending the Standing Orders. Madam Temporary Speaker, being the lawyer you are, we are a presidential system and not a parliamentary system or a mongrel. In a presidential system, we are supposed to have parliamentarians and the Executive would serve as CSs and the President. When we invite CSs, and that has been handled by the rest of the Members who have contributed, Sen. Olekina and Sen. Oketch Gicheru, how would we be admitting them into this House with the mace there? How would it look like? So, I want to go on record that I would not be one of the people to support this because it is unconstitutional. Thirdly, we have tried before to have sittings in the morning on Wednesdays. We have had quorum hitches until we resolved to have only three days in the week for our Sittings."
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