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    "id": 578831,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/578831/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nassir",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2433,
        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": "To save the nation from tyrants who are going to be born, I would strongly request that Members oppose this Bill. If we were to accept this Bill, let us accept it with an amendment to define the word “Parliament”. When that definition comes, does it mean that it is anywhere where HANSARD records are being put in place like the Chambers? Does it mean the precincts of any Committee of Parliament? Does it mean anywhere the Parliamentary Committees meet and it not just a bunch of us who wish to sit down and come up with these kinds of statements that can turn this country upside down? Needless to say, the ultimate law of this country is the Constitution of Kenya (CoK). When any court is going to be challenged that someone is doing something within their rights as per the CoK, then no court can be able to touch any Member who commits any form of illegality and uses or covers himself with that umbrella that he is doing it as a Member of Parliament. Again, when we go into Article 196 of the CoK and the amendment that is being proposed in Clause 2(a), it talks about a Member of County Assembly (MCA) not liable in action or suit in respect of anything done or omitted to be done in good faith in the lawful performance of a function of a county assembly. Now, not only are we trying to legitimize 350 potential tyrants, we are now trying to legitimize an excess of 1,280 tyrants. We do not need this kind of show of force and might."
}