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    "id": 300330,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I support the deletion, but not for the reasons that are in the Memorandum. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, it is only by extension of the reason in the Memorandum that I can come to the conclusion that there is some merit in the deletion, probably by the reasons given by His Excellency the President. What we should look at is not the fact that there are issues pending in court, because the separation of powers stated clearly that on issues of legislation, Parliament is sovereign. That cannot be undermined. It is just like even on matters concerning settlement of disputes through the judicial process, where the courts are supreme. But the way that I find merit in the Memorandum that has been given by His Excellency the President is by looking at the reasons given in some of those petitions. Some of the petitioners have gone to court and are challenging the constitutionality of what is contained in the Bill that was proposed to be signed by His Excellency the President. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I wanted to give only one reason and sit down. There is a chancellor in the United Kingdom who wrote a book about political parties. He said – and this is somebody who was sitting in the House of Lords – that up to the turn of the last century, the only three branches of Government which were known were the Judiciary, Legislature and Executive. But he added a fourth that, indeed, political parties are organs of governance. Where political parties do not work well, democracy cannot be effectively practised. For example, the head of the Anglican"
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