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    "id": 1371841,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1371841/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to begin by thanking the Sponsor of this Bill, Sen. Osotsi, for bringing what I perceive – I beg to differ with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale – to be an important amendment to the Powers and Privileges Act. Madam Temporary Speaker, every organisation does audit of its activities annually and looks at its strengths, weaknesses, the opportunities it has, and the threats it faces in executing its mandate. Madam Temporary Speaker, these proposed amendments to the Power and Privileges Bill is a response to the weaknesses and the threats we face as a House in enforcing the powers conferred on this House by Article 125 of the Constitution. Therefore, I want to plead and I hope by the end of this debate Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale will be persuaded that this Bill does not contain any provision that we can deem to be unconstitutional. What it does is, it gives teeth to the provisions of Article 125 of the Constitution. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is because you cannot have powers to summon but lack the mechanisms to enforce. That will be a weakness in itself. Therefore, if we were to identify and analyse the weaknesses that we face as a body that is supposed to provide checks and balances, then clearly the fact that we cannot arrest a person who has"
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