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"speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us be honest to each other. We should be transparent. As I speak to you now, some hon. Members have already filed a petition in court today. They should tell us what they have done, rather than arguing at cross purposes. We cannot use the platform of Parliament to hijack issues that rightly belong to another organ that is best suited to interpret the statutes. This Parliament has made a law. We feel as Parliament - and I think that is why Members are excited â that, maybe, that law has been flouted. Are we the ones to interpret that law? Is there another organ to interpret that law? This House has painfully gone through the process of making laws and, at some stage, creating organs like tribunals to interpret the laws that we have made. We have just gone through a battery of those after the recent post election violence. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I plead with you that, in your ruling, we should not enter into another battlefield. Lets us not enter into a battlefield. I do not deny that Parliament is supreme, but when you have made a law, let somebody else interpret that law. We should give our judicial system the opportunity to interpret that law. There is always another"
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