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    "id": 581101,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/581101/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. Whether we believe in resurrection or not, it is important that we realise that yesterday a precedent was set in the sense that quite a number of us were not aware of that opening within the Standing Orders when we are dealing with a Bill related to the Constitution. The few who were aware might have stood up after Hon. Lelelit’s Bill was lost. In the case of Hon. Ochieng’s Bill, many of us were not aware of that kind of provision. It is so because we must all realise that the new Standing Orders are actually a result of the new Constitution. In that sort of situation, this House, which you lead, therefore, has to be setting precedents and traditions as to how we handle these matters. Now that such a provision does exist, which many people were not aware of, giving the benefit of the doubt to Hon. Ochieng would be useful because he approached you immediately after his Bill was lost. So, in a situation like this, it is not a question of resurrecting anything. It is a question of just following the Standing Orders as they are and allowing that next time when we reconvene we reconsider"
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