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    "id": 548836,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Thirdly, we do not want melodrama, acrobatics and sarakasis on issues to do with terrorism on social media; mainly on Twitter and on Facebook. The fact is that the AlShabaab terror group are evil and murderous. Let the entire leadership of this country take responsibility. People should stop shifting blame. Terrorist attacks are happening and we are burying people. As an hon. Member said, the fact is that terrorists have a target, and that target is known. Members of the Christian faith are very concerned, and we know that we are on the edge. Finally, we must respect the Constitution. When the three of us on the Jubilee side of this House decided to abstain from voting on what was moved, we abstained on the basis of same simple constitutionalism principle that we have been talking about. The fact is that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) does not exist in this country today. There can never be a Cabinet without Cabinet Secretaries being appointed. There can never be a Teachers Service Commission (TSC) without Commissioners appointed to transact the business of the Commission. There can never be a National Police Service without service members appointed to serve. There can never be a Public Service Commission (PSC) without Commissioners appointed to serve in that Commission. There can never be Presidency without the President and the Deputy President being elected to occupy those offices. There can never be a National Assembly without the Speaker sitting in the Chair to preside over the business of the House, the Clerks-at-the- Table manning the Table of the House and advising the Speaker, and the constituting Members coming to the House to transact business. So, let us accept that, as we speak today, there is an agenda to emasculate, stigmatise and, as I said earlier on, to despise the authority of our constitutional institutions, including the increasingly condescending and contemptuous caricaturing and cartooning of the President of this country by certain media houses on a daily basis. We are under siege and, therefore, we need to focus on where we want to go with a solid Presidency, Legislature, Judiciary and constitutional Commissions. There is no Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission because of what this House did last week. A tribunal sits quickly before you complete your work. The secretariat sitting there cannot process anything that will be acceptable to the citizens of this country. Otherwise we will be telling the country that the new---"
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