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    "id": 569822,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/569822/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I rise to oppose this amendment with the following reasons. We do not enact just to achieve a specific short-term goal. We legislate for posterity. Creating a vacuum in a commission that all of us require at this stage is not proper. More so, the work of a commission is to employ the secretariat. The secretariat actually serves the commission. What we are purporting to do now here is to usurp the functions of an independent commission and this does not require legislation. The EACC as clearly spelt out in the Constitution is under Chapter 15, and its functions are those of independent commissions. Therefore, I do not want to believe my colleagues here. Let us not politicise this. Let us not trivialise the function of this very important commission. We will require it and all of us require it. I oppose this amendment."
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