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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Deputy Speaker; I stand to oppose the Motion. This is a great day because the Jubilee Coalition has realized that we have the numbers on our side. This is a constitutional amendment; they will need a two-thirds majority; we denied them and I am very happy. That is why I remained behind when my colleagues went out, just to register in the HANASRD that this House must develop a bi- partisan approach to issues, if we are to go far and with serious legislation. This practice of the Leader of Majority Party subjecting everything to the tyranny of numbers must stop in this House. This is a House for legislation and we are all legislators. We are not part of the Executive. There are hon. Members of this House, who come here with the mindset that they are part of the Executive. They come here to defend the Executive agenda, and they behave as though they are Cabinet Secretaries. That notion should be put to a stop; already the Constitution has put it to stop. The Constitution has separated the Legislature, Judiciary and the Executive. This issue of some of the hon. Members feeling that they are part of the Executive is worrying this House; that is why many of our agenda items are not going through; that is why the Leader of Majority Party could not reach out to the other side of the House to make sure that we reduce the period of publication of this Bill. Secondly, this cannot always be the idea; shortening of Billsâ publication period from 14 to 7 days should not become a precedent. I think the one we did today was thea fourth one since I came to this Parliament and this always delays bringing of Bills to this House. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Constitution was promulgated in 2010, and it gave three years for this Bill to be brought to this House. But somebody slept on his job and he is bringing it now when the deadline is on 27th of August, 2013. He is bringing this Bill today, 23rd of July, 2013. What was he doing since that time for them to bring this Bill at this time, and to request hon. Members to extend the period by another four months? That is unacceptable. I think it is failure on the part of the CIOC, CIC and the AGâs office. They should have brought this Bill a long time ago for hon. Members to discuss. The media is a very important entity to the Government; it is the Fourth Estate. The media plays a major role in this country and it is very sad that they have been ejected from the Media Centre of this Parliament."
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