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    "id": 372016,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/372016/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance. I want to contribute to this debate. I am particularly saddened. I think that this House really ought to be given time. It is going to take time to know how to work within the constitutional dispensation. It is going to take time now to work between the different arms of Government and I really suggest that any indications of rushing to amend the Constitution should be put off for some time. I think we have to be subservient to the Constitution and time will help us to deal with that. I do not think I would like to see the Cabinet Secretary sitting here all the time as we debate. There must be a mechanism which, indeed, realizes that this is now a problem that the administration of Parliament should find a way to deal with. They need to interact with senior officers in various Ministries to get answers, which are signed by Cabinet Secretaries. The answers need not be accurate or nice, but they will be substantive answers that commit Government. I think if we learnt to give and take, over time we are going to be fine and then give ourselves a year or two before thinking of amending the Constitution. Otherwise, it will be like whenever we have issues, we rush to the Constitution. I want that solemnity of the Constitution to remain. Thank you very much, hon. Speaker, Sir. I seek guidance from the Chair on what statements we are actually going to ask on the Floor of this House because all that we are doing is not in order. Which kind of statements do we seek on the Floor of this House?"
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