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    "id": 203834,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/203834/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Syongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 316,
        "legal_name": "Zaddock Madiri Syong'oh",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the provisions relating to the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act be amended- (n) By deleting the proposed amendment to the Second Schedule; Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I would like to draw the attention of the House to the fact that the drafting might have been a purely typographical mistake. This is because if you go to the original Act, as it is today, under the Second Schedule, Section 2(1) says: \"The term of each nominated member of the Advisory Board shall be five years.\" Emphasis is: \"Shall be five years.\" The intended amendment, which I believe was by mistake reads: \"A member of the Advisory Board shall, unless his office becomes vacant, continue in office until he is reappointed or replaced.\" It has used the word \"shall\" again. What that means is that whereas Section 2(1) says that the term shall be five years, the proposed amendment is tantamount to contradicting the provisions under Section 2(1). I think this is a mistake. I have drawn the attention of the Attorney-General to that obvious lack of internal consistency and, therefore, beg to request that he actually accepts that this proposed amendment be deleted in order to have internal consistency in the provisions of the Second Schedule."
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