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    "id": 128084,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/128084/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. In making a ruling in this important matter, I invite you to consider two issues. One, is the extra-judicial issues that underpin this debate that go well beyond the law and the province of the Judiciary. I have the privilege of serving in the Committee of Delegated Legislation, and while ceized of this matter, we have gone beyond law and looked at issues of integrity. We have looked at issues of Executive impunity. We have looked at issues of morality of Executive authority and exercise of Executive power. All these issues go beyond the dry legalese rules that the hon. Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs wants to bind us by. Secondly, we must remain alive to the fact that the rule of sub judice is not a cateblanche, a blank cheque or a loose canon ball that can deployed by anybody, anyhow, in any situation. This rule has limits and its limits must be understood in the context of conflict of jurisdictions. Therefore, in making a ruling, you must address your mind as to"
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