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    "speaker_name": "Mr. George Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I find it one of those days that I must very decisively disagree with my learned friend, the Attorney-General. The reason that he is advocating for this amendment is completely unfounded. He says the matter is in court and, therefore, the House cannot legislate on it. The practice is, and I shall read from some other jurisdictions, the right of the House to debate and legislate on matters without outside interference or hindrance is self evident. Circumstances could be such that, for example, Parliament decides to consider a change to the law to remedy a situation which is before a court or subject to court action. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, if, for example, there was, indeed, a crisis which could only be cured by legislation or by an Act of Parliament, it would then be completely irresponsible for the House to say “No, we cannot do anything about it; let us wait for the slow wheels of the law to take its cause.”So, that cannot be the reason that we would want to support the President’s proposal. There may well be other reasons, but not that one. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I do not quite know when the Speaker ruled--- It is one of the questions I was seeking. Does the Speaker now become part of the House and that, therefore, he decides on behalf of the House? We were proposing to bring an amendment to the Presidential Memorandum. The House has three ways of dealing with the Presidential Memorandum; we can concur with it, veto it or override it or we can actually amend it. Now, when the Speaker ruled that, that is inadmissible, it really does put the House into a very strange situation. We are being simply told that either you accept or you reject it. That cannot really be the way separation of powers works. So, Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I would wish---"
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