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    "id": 928086,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/928086/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. From the outset, I join my colleagues in opposing it and urge that we consider withdrawing it. I am saying this because we have three Bills before the House which have gone through the First Reading, namely, a Bill by Hon. Jude Njomo, one by Hon. Kioni and a third one. These three Bills seek to do the same thing, to solve the lacuna in law on appointment of commissioners when a vacancy arises. This brings to light two issues. The first one is on the clear interest in resolving the problem of appointment of commissioners, especially subsequent appointments. The second one is how we handle legislation in this House. There must be a problem somewhere, maybe in the Legal Department of Parliament, because we cannot have three Bills with the same content coming to the House at different times. This is what we call over-legislation. So, there is a problem somewhere, but most importantly, I object to the Bill because elections are key in the country. As Members have said, people have died because of elections. As representatives of the people, we need to find a solution. The solution cannot be found through half measures or coming up with piecemeal legislations. We need to sit down, look at the issues around elections and come up with proper legislation to deal with the problem of elections once and for all."
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