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    "id": 203992,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wako",
    "speaker_title": "The Attorney-General",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 208,
        "legal_name": "Sylvester Wakoli Bifwoli",
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    "content": " It is just deletion! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is the new Subclause 17(7) which this House passed either yesterday or the day before and which read as follows:- \"THAT, the concurrence referred to in Subsection 5 shall be communicated in writing to the Speaker of the National Assembly by the recognised leader of the political party concerned, naming all Members of the party in respect of whom there is concurrence. The Speaker, shall, in writing, notify the Chief Justice accordingly before such Members are sworn-in\". That is Paragraph VI. You may recall that I stated clearly that the Chief Justice has no role, whatsoever, to play in this matter because in the Promissory Oath Act, Cabinet Ministers and Assistant Ministers are sworn-in by the President himself and not the Chief Justice. Paragraph VII states:- \"Any Member of the National Assembly who, having been elected into the National Assembly through the support, or as a supporter of a political party, accepts an appointment in contravention of Subsection V of this section shall be deemed to have resigned from that party\". That is the clause I said was clearly unconstitutional."
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