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    "id": 781741,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Losiakou",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I make this contribution, I would like to also make some little responses that might also help the Speaker in considering what my colleague has just raised. Firstly, there is separation of powers amongst the three arms of Government, and that aspect needs to be considered. Secondly, this Bill is already before the House and somebody went to court only yesterday. So, who should have been prejudicial? It should have been the person who has taken the matter to court. He should have waited until this House considered either way and then proceed to court to, maybe, challenge the constitutionality of the resultant law. My colleague has raised fundamental issues, which have also been addressed in Article 189 (2) of the Constitution. For the benefit of the country and my colleague, there is nothing unconstitutional in this Bill. Otherwise, it would not have been tabled here in the first place. For the benefit of our colleague and the country, Article 189 (2) provides for government at each level. Different governments at the county level shall co-operate in the performance of functions and exercise of powers and, for that purpose, may set up joint committees and joint authorities."
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