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    "id": 336556,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/336556/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, again this is one of the Bills that will define some of the issues that were left hanging in our Constitution, in terms of how the national Government will be co-ordinated, the functions of the Cabinet in the new dispensation; they were in the former Constitution but were left out of the new Constitution. There are issues relating to the interplay between the National Government and the county governments. Much as we have a situation where the Provincial Administration system is supposed to be reformed within the next five years--- Come election time and immediately after we will have three years running; between then and the next Parliament--- We will have a system that is already in place and a new system brought in by the new Constitution without a law that defines what the Governor will be doing, what the Provincial Commissioner will be doing, what the District Commissioner will be doing; the two could end up bringing confusion. It is important that this matter is addressed by this House, which has had singular responsibility of ushering in the new Constitution for this country, and doing the ground work in terms of the county Bills and all the other Bills. With that institutional memory still intact in this House, it will be important that this House gets the opportunity to discuss these matters; if they are completed, so be it. If they are not completed, let them be given to the next House; we have input of what needs to be done. We may leave this to a new House that will have absolutely no idea of what we are talking about."
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