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    "id": 826818,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826818/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": " Thank you. So, the issue of having a deputy speaker in law is critical. In the absence of the speaker, the deputy takes over. We have also provided for what happens when both of them are not there. We have also put sanity in the removal of the speaker. A colleague has just said that if you make it very easy then it will be abused. You know there is a lot of politics in our assemblies and even in National Assembly it happens all the time. There are disagreements on personal level because of basic things. People would even want to impeach the speaker if it was made very easy. This law is putting sanity by giving reasons which can be used to impeach a speaker. You cannot use frivolous reasons to impeach a speaker. It must be serious issues of incompetence, inabilities or committing a crime. Generally, this is worth supporting. On the recall of MCAs after elections, this recall clause gives members a lot of sleepless nights. Opponents and sometimes those that were supporting the MCA and he has made it and they were expecting certain favours in return and they do not get them, quickly start collecting papers and going round the wards collecting signatures and telling them that they are going to remove them from office. So, by putting sanity on how an MCA can be recalled, we are stopping those idle threats by making it clear that you can only recall your MCA for certain violations not just because you do not like him. Not because you thought he would buy you a"
}