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    "id": 41556,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support Mr. Duale’s Motion that this Motion is unconstitutional. Since I know you will make a ruling, I wanted to express my opinion on it. Article 44 of the Constitution says that every person has the right to use a language and participate in the cultural life of the person’s choice. A person belonging to a cultural or linguistic community has the right with other members of that community to enjoy the person’s culture and to use the person’s language or to form, join and maintain cultural and legitimate associations and other organs of civil society. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you say that you will ban in meetings and baraza people speaking in their own language, it means that you cannot form associations where you meet in public to use your own language. This Motion is unconstitutional because it goes against the spirit of the Constitution. Therefore, it should not be debated but withdrawn."
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