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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will straightaway go away from the praises and all the good things that have been said and ask the Minister to pay attention to a few things because he really needs our minds here to fertilize the Bill and not for us to praise singers. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the first thing I want to raise concerns the principle of separation of power. We have brought into this Judicial Service Bill, the terminology “President of Supreme Court, President of Court of Appeal, Vice-President of what and not”. We must not confuse our people out there. The only President is the one that we will elect through the ballot. We do not want this terminology to be brought into the Judiciary. The word “president” has political connotations in it. The word “president” has been the preserve of the people who have been elected through the ballot. We have thousands of terminologies that we can use. You can say: “My Lord, the Chief Justice.” You can call him whatever you want. You refer to him as My Lord or whatever you want. We do not want to import those terminologies into the political arena. Why should this Parliament import those terminologies into the Judiciary? Why are we letting our terminologies to be taken? We just heard the Speaker say very clearly that we must not be impeded in terms of the way we conduct our business here. There must be separation, even in terminology. It would be absurd to refer to the Head of the Executive or the Head of Parliament as hon. Chief Justice or hon. President. Let us leave it the way it is. I will be suggesting, very strongly, to the Minister to remove all those references. They can find other references to refer to the Judiciary so that we keep it in that manner. I am referring, specifically---"
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