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    "id": 287086,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on Thursday, the third day of February 2011, this House had opportunity to receive a ruling from the Chair on whether the Chair can be invited to rule on the legality or constitutionality of a motion or a report brought to this House. That was with regard to a Question raised by hon. Gitobu Imanyara who sought from the Chair to rule on what hon. Members of the National Assembly should do where instances of gross violation of the Constitution occur instigated by either hon. Members of this House, the Executive or the Judiciary. As part of the ruling, the Chair in that particular instance had this to say. Allow me to quote this for the record as a precedent:- “Hon. Members, I wish to begin by pronouncing myself on the matter of the jurisdiction of the Speaker to determine the question raised as the answer to this question is a prerequisite to proceeding with the other issues raised. Hon. Members will recall that I indicated on Tuesday, 1st February 2011in promising to give this ruling that I had no doubt in my mind that the Speaker has the jurisdiction to rule on this matter. Indeed, I have had the pleasure to rule on various occasions that it is a subtle law in the Commonwealth and beyond that every independent legislature is the sole judge as to how it shall conduct its own affairs.”"
}