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    "id": 416356,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let us support and I will urge the Chair to go back and come up with clear amendments, which do not give one human being a lot of powers. You know, power corrupts absolutely. This has happened before. Do not take us back from where we came from. This has been the problem when you give one centre such powers like you want to give the I-G. This country will be in chaos. Even the Kriegler Report clearly states that we should not do that. That is why we have the new Constitution. Let us have offices where no single person is vested with powers. If an officer has to have power, it should be a Commission’s power, so that people can debate and agree. Administratively, he can do his job and it is given in the Act. I reject this and request the Committee to use the information which they have put together to come up with amendments according to the information and conclusions that they have made in the Report. They are not allowed to go anywhere. The information which is in this Report, which they have, should be used to do the amendments. They have done a good job, but the amendments they have brought do not tally with the deliberations and the discussions. Therefore, I oppose."
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