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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is a reality that the challenges of some of these imagined threats are real and this country must be protected. We must safeguard our borders and territorial integrity. We must be prepared to protect the lives and properties of the people of Kenya and all other businesses, but that does not take away the fundamental constitutional right of every Kenyan. This is why we have clear separation of institutional roles. That is why we have votes, we have funded and we have clearly enshrined in the Constitution a pro-justice Judiciary, a pro-people friendly Judiciary and a well reformed and well funded Judiciary. That is why we must adhere to the rule of law and ask the Executive to clearly follow the institutional separation and allow the Judiciary to function as required by the Constitution. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in our opinion, when we looked at this, it is totally wrong for the Executive to take over the role of the courts, the police and determine the “guiltiness” of an individual before even the individual is subjected to a court of law. This is why rendition; surrendering Kenyans to other entities without subjecting them to the due process of the Kenyan law as required by our Constitution takes us back to the old days where everybody was at the mercy of few individuals. You could be arrested, arraigned in court, detained without trial and at times you could even be convicted without being heard. Is this not the era that we really want to go away from? Who would like to be a citizen of a country where the due process or the rule of law does not enjoy the constitutional requirement? Nobody!"
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