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    "content": "The role of interpreting whether it was done correctly; whether the President did the right thing; whether he interpreted the law properly, not this House because I think differently, you think differently, so by a higher number, will that mean it is wrong or right? No! It is almost like mob justice and I would really urge hon. Members to be honourable and honest enough to admit that it is not our role. The President did his role, which was to reappoint the director and his two assistants, and he interpreted the law that way. We also have a right to interpret it a different way. The only people now who can come and say: “President, you erred; or Parliament, you are right or wrong”, is the court. The judges are the ones, I think now and that is the separation of powers. Are we just justified because it will be the majority saying, yes, it was done wrongly? Does it make the minority hon. Members that their judgment was wrong? No! Let us not play ball. That is why our different roles are such that we cannot hurt somebody wrongly; make the wrong judgment and hurt somebody just because we do not like them or just because we are interested in this House to treat all Kenyans equally, regardless of their ethnicity or whether we like them or not. We should judge the work done and not the person. I do not think we have that machinery to judge."
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