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    "content": "I was one of the lawyers who appeared pro bono in the Supreme Court and there is nowhere where the Supreme Court mentioned or even made a directive that we should make any attempt to amend our electoral laws. The people on the majority side want to exhibit some kind of dictatorship. They want to bulldoze people. You should be worried when you start using what you call “tyranny of numbers”. Tyranny is never a good thing. You cannot even go to your own house and tell your children that you want to rule them through tyranny. We should reason together and put the interest of this country ahead of all of us. We are in the midst of conducting an election in the next 30 days yet we want to bring laws that will sent wrong signals to people who are meant to participate in the forthcoming election. I appeal to the majority side to seriously consider and put this country first before our own personal interests. Looking at these amendments, I do not know whether we honourable Senators have read the Constitution. If you read Article 49 of the Constitution, you will see that independent commissions are supposed to be independent and they are not supposed to be under the directive of any person. Not even this House can direct how independent commissions should conduct their business. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want the Jubilee affiliates to remember that they are the people of who came up with the tag of being digital---"
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