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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "I withdraw the word. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, going to the issue that is there, in fact, the Senior Counsel and Minister for Lands has alluded to it. A Constitutional Bill does not have the benefit of this House amending even a single clause, a comma, a full stop or anything. If it is an ordinary piece of legislation--- If, for example, the Minister has brought a raft of legislation proposals in the Finance Bill from various Acts of Parliament, that is one case when we allow miscellaneous amendments. If it is the Attorney-General who has brought a number of miscellaneous amendments through a Miscellaneous Amendment Bill--- If you look at those Bills, at the Committee Stage, I, as hon. Mungatana and any other hon. Member, have the advantage of removing some clauses at the Committee Stage, amending some clauses and dealing with that matter in any other manner. But, if it is a Constitutional Bill, we either have to pass the entire Bill or throw out the entire Bill. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this means that we must go slowly and cautiously. This House will not accept to be hurried over these issues. There is no harm in the Minister going back before allowing this First Reading to take place. We, as a Parliament, will not accept this; I know all people who have been thinking about our Constitution and the pains we went through, would want us to go slowly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would propose, sincerely from the bottom of my heart, that the Minister goes back with this Bill. Let him not put all this like in a normal Constitutional Bill; let him go back, let him redraft; let him bring the three issues separately and let us debate as a House. Let us debate as a country and let us agree to disagree, but we cannot allow the Government, or the Executive Arm of the Government, to ride roughshod over this Parliament. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to disagree that it be read for the First Time."
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