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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we, Members from this side, were trying to help the Executive, particularly the Minister for Finance, who has demonstrated that he is a very good friend of ours. We have no quarrel with him, but he has persistently raised matters that contradict the law. In fact, he says that the issue is time and it is a matter of time, but we are telling him that it is not a matter of time. The issue at hand is time. That is the matter we are contesting. I also want him to appreciate that the Fifth Schedule that he is talking about is saying “legislation to be enacted by Parliament”. He is a good lawyer and should read basic English. When you talk about enactment, it is a Bill that has already been assented to by the President. That is what enactment is all about. I do not work for consultancy for the Government for him to pay me. We are saying that any other Bill that is yet to be enacted is a proposal before the House and before the President. So, when the President has brought any part of that Bill back to the House, the same process of the proposal is still on and until that process is determined by the famous signature, we have no law before the House. It is only a proposal. I want to conclude by saying that the matter that we are talking about is a matter of constitutionalism and the rule of law which everybody must appreciate. Article 2 of the Constitution is subtitled the “Supremacy of this Constitution”. Clause 2(1) says that:- “This Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic and binds all persons and all State organs at both levels of government”."
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