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    "id": 187284,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I stand to oppose this Motion for very few and straightforward issues. One, starting almost where Mr. Munya has stopped, we have pending Bills before this House that aim to amend the Constitution. Piecemeal amendments to the Constitution will not help us in this country and it is important that we all sober up, wait and be ready for a proper review of our Constitution. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, the Mover of this Motion seeks for gender parity and regional balance and these are issues that continually creep into our legislative agenda which I believe as the Member of Parliament for Ndaragwa, we need to be very careful about because by and large, we see this issue of regional balancing ending up discriminating some other areas. We should rather be talking now about population balance because we are pushing this regional balance beyond the limit and it is also becoming discriminative. We are actually marginalising other people through this phrase that is now being misused, of regional balance."
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