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    "id": 1097599,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097599/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Finally, because a lot has been said and I do not want to go into the substance and discuss the issues that were brought up, how on earth would one imagine that we have a Constitution that Parliament cannot amend? All the Parliaments in the world amend constitutions and so it cannot be that people’s representatives can only make statute amendments and not amendments to the supreme law. We can. That is why we are the peoples’ representatives. There is that safeguard of protecting certain clauses which is, again, basic in many jurisdictions. People have called it names such as judicial activism. Going forward, the people of Kenya need to ask whether when we talked about dictatorship, we had in mind only dictatorship by the Executive. We can have Parliamentary dictatorship where Parliament loads it over other institutions. We can equally have judicial dictatorship. Dictatorship by any arm of the Government is bad for democracy and for the people of Kenya. We do not want Executive dictatorship. We do not want a president who thinks he is god. We do not want Parliamentary dictatorship where we would appear like the god for this country. We equally do not want judicial dictatorship where the Judiciary thinks they are gods. Any dictatorship is not good for this country. I thank you Hon. Speaker."
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