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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was saying that these rights were not granted by the State and are not limited to those that are enumerated in Chapter 4; that should be well understood because some people are fond of just waiving the Bill of Rights, and thinking that is all there is. At least in the Constitution that we had before its amendment when we were saying discrimination on the ground of sex was unconstitutional, or was not within the dignity of man as expressed in many of the universal instruments; the tendency was to say that it was not provided in our Constitution. People took the position that this Bill of Rights contained all the rights, but the current Bill of Rights tells us that not all the rights are in it, and they could be elsewhere. They could be in international instruments like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all that. So, I think this Constitution has done a good job in trying to put the human rights in their appropriate perspective. The Bill that we are debating is one of the mechanisms to ensure that the respect of human rights is part of the culture of our democracy, and there are institutional mechanisms to make sure that there is the fullest enjoyment of human rights in this country."
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