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    "id": 863398,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863398/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
        "slug": "jeremiah-kioni"
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    "content": "In responding to what Hon. Makali had alluded to, we have engaged the Law Reform Commission and also the Office of the Attorney General to try and get a status report on how much we have implemented in our Constitution. In the coming days when we resume, we should be able to table our report which Parliament can debate and remove the notion from those outside this Parliament that we have failed to implement the Constitution just because there is one article, like the one we had yesterday. This Parliament has done its bit. We still have to do more. The implementation of the Constitution is not a one off thing, it is a lifetime thing. We will implement it. Even those who come after we are dead will still continue implementing the Constitution. But let me also say that one of the things that we should never try to do is to amend the Constitution to implement the Constitution. We should use laws to implement the Constitution but we should not amend the Constitution to implement the Constitution. If you want to amend the Constitution to implement the Constitution in my opinion, and as the Chair of the CIOC, you will need a referendum. You must ask those who gave us that Constitution when you want to amend it to implement it. I do not want to start a debate on that today. We will continue with it later and it will help in the coming times if you are given that opportunity."
}