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    "id": 593582,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. For once, I will support what the Leader of the Majority Party is saying which is very rare for me. While I support the amendment, we need to realise that this problem is not about Hon. Keynan or Hon. Gumbo. This is a Parliament leadership problem. The HANSARD will bear me out. I have stood about four times when Bills come to this House and asked the Speaker: Is this Bill really constitutional and the Speaker has always said “let the House decide” yet Standing Orders and the Constitution are very clear that the Speaker is the one who determines what is constitutional and what should come to the Floor of this House. So now lack of decision on constitutionality of Bills has come to haunt this House with this Bill. The other issue is on Committee amendments. Usually, this House has shown lack of respect for Committee recommendations. Committees have recommended right from the beginning of this House that this Cabinet Secretary (CS) is not fit or this particular issue is not good but this House overturns it. Every time we have overturned a Committee’s recommendations, we have ended up in a bad state and that is what has happened with this Bill. The Committee had recommended deletion of this particular clause from the word go. So what the House is suffering from is our own past misbehaviour and that is what we are facing now."
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