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    "id": 221362,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the President",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not reading. This is because the separation of powers is not provided by a specific provision of the Constitution. It is the way our Constitution is designed that provides for separation of powers. We have specific sections of the Constitution which give mandate to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial arms of the Government. This is what we call separation of powers. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, negotiation and ratification of treaties is a mandate of the Executive arm of the Government. So, when we bring an ordinary Motion here to change that, through an ordinary resolution, that becomes automatically unconstitutional. This is because we are not bringing a provision of the Constitution in order to change that constitutional set-up. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, so, in my understanding of the law, this Motion is unconstitutional, because it is trying to transfer the mandate of the Executive to the Legislative arm of Government."
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