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    "id": 274016,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, as it appears, the debate has turned into legal jargons. The more I listen to our Attorney-General, the more it strikes me that nothing is changing in our country. It is a shame that the Attorney-General should say that if nothing is contemplated in the Constitution, it is for the President to decide. We cannot seek to make laws away from the only lawmaking organ of this country. It has been said by hon. Imanyara that a law already exists – the National Police Service Act. The memorandum clearly says that this is contrary to that. What the memorandum of the President seeks to do is to create a third and parallel government, which is not contemplated in the Constitution. The Attorney- General talks of a devolved system. How would you do devolution without inheriting, in the devolved government, the existing devolved government, which comprises of the chiefs, the assistant chiefs, the District Officers and the District Commissioners? Mr. Chairman, Sir, I want to plead with the Attorney-General that the issue here is not to humiliate the President, but it is for us to make devolution work in its originally contemplated spirit."
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