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    "id": 204031,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/204031/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kibwana",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 277,
        "legal_name": "Kibwana Kivutha",
        "slug": "kibwana-kivutha"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am sorry that I was not fast enough in terms of coming to my feet. Of course, as a Parliament, we have passed the Statute Law (Miscellaneous mendments) Bill. But I just want to state, as a matter of record, that the National Assembly and Presidential Elections Act, the amendment to Section 17, that the direction to the Chief Justice, who does not swear-in Ministers, is obviously a problem that, perhaps, will come before a Constitutional Court. Secondly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you cannot have somebody constructively resigning from a party, because every person must have the right to be in a party or not, or it should be for the party itself to follow the procedures of removing somebody from it. That is for record. Finally, in terms of the anti-corruption law, this Parliament has emasculated that law in terms of the amendments that we have proposed. I think that if, as a country, we need to consider past corruption, just like in the Bomas, Kilifi and Wako Drafts there were provisions for dealing with past corruption, the proper way is not to emasculate the law."
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