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    "id": 187281,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/187281/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I want to agree with my colleague who contributed earlier that this Motion is very dangerous. The constitutional position of Parliament is that it is supreme. Therefore, the PSC occupies a very important position in relation to powers of Parliament, and the role that Parliament fulfils in our constitutional order. So, when you purport to amend the Constitution to include non- Parliamentarians in the PSC, you undermine the supremacy of Parliament. Therefore, you are watering down the role of the Legislative Assembly. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the history of why the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) was created, you will find that it is because we wanted to keep away the Executive from attempting to control Parliament because Parliament used to be an appendage of the Executive before it asserted itself and created the PSC. So, this Motion is again taking us backwards and trying to creep back the Executive because, obviously, what will happen if we allow this amendment is that we are likely to have civil servants being seconded to serve in the PSC. The Motion does not even tell us how the people who will serve in the PSC will be picked. So, we are likely to have appendages of the Executive creeping back to Parliament and it is very dangerous to do that."
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