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    "id": 1339226,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1339226/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "What we are doing is that many of us, even those who are not lawyers, are aware of the doctrine of the supremacy of the Constitution. Our Constitution in Article 2 also proclaims its own supremacy. Article 254 of the Constitution talks about reporting by commissions and independent offices. It is an express provision of the Constitution that commissions where the Judicial Service Commission is one of them, shall report to Parliament. What we are doing is to make sure that the Judicial Service Act is consistent with the Constitution because the Judicial Service Act talks about the National Assembly while the Constitution talks about Parliament. Therefore, we are just substituting the word “National Assembly” with the word “Parliament” so that the reports of the Judicial Service Commission come to both our chambers of Parliament. Thank you."
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