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    "id": 880840,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/880840/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "What is before this House is not a petition, but a Report of the PAC of the National Assembly. So Article 251 has broken down how commissioners can be removed from office. In the end it says that a petitioner may represent a petition to Parliament to look at it. If it is satisfied, it can forward it to the President to form a tribunal. I do not want Members to send you in a fishing expedition. The matter is very clear. I urge you to look at it in a manner that befits handling constitutionally. You cannot kill a Report of Parliament because a provision of the Constitution says that a petitioner may present a petition to Parliament. What happens if the petitioner does not present any petition and we have killed the Report, anticipating that somebody might bring a petition to Parliament to remove the commissioners? The issue is that we have to look at the Report on its own merit, discuss it, make amendments, adjust it and do anything we feel like as a House. If we are going to kill this PAC Report because the provisions of the Constitution have said that, maybe, the commissioners will face double jeopardy, the House will have pronounced itself on the commissioners and a petitioner might bring a petition. We also have to look at the other side of the coin. What if no petitioner brings a petition to Parliament? I want you to exercise that in your ruling. I want you to very clearly indicate how you are going to adjudicate between those two sides of the coin, whether a petitioner will bring a petition or not and how the Report will be conducted. In my view, the Report should be discussed. We cannot stop a process of Parliament because of anticipating something that is not within our boundary. I am a Member of that Committee…"
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