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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I am glad that I have finally caught your eye. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to make comments on this very important issue. I think we swore our allegiance to this Constitution. If you look at Article 3, it states that every person has an obligation to respect, uphold and defend the Constitution. I am glad that my first statement in this House is in defence of the Constitution. We must do this with energy, because everything we do in this country must be grounded in this supreme law of the land. We are seeing a situation where different bodies--- The Senate was stating that they want to become an upper House, or a superior House or whatever they want to become, without going through the Constitution. That same Article 3 of the Constitution says that anybody who wants, or wishes, to form a government outside out of the Constitution is doing so unlawfully. This is the law and I do not know where my brothers in the Senate are deriving their ideas from. I have heard, and I have had occasion to read in the newspapers, that they are saying that some of the things they want to do were mutilated in this House. But you will note that the legislative role in this country, as my brothers have clearly stated, is a role of this House. So when they say that we sat here, or the previous House sat here, and mutilated the Constitution and, therefore, removed the powers they wanted to exercise, what are they telling us? They are telling us to go back to the drawing board, look into the drainage and find out what was thrown into it, so that we can tell the people what was thrown away, which is the power my brothers at the Senate should be exercising. You have a heavy burden on your shoulders and you must carry it. I have confidence and I am sure that you will deliver a ruling that will be"
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