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    "id": 331203,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me thank Mr. Kapondi. This is a very weighty matter. We interrogated this matter yesterday in the House Business Committee in the light of the directions given by the substantive Speaker yesterday afternoon. If anybody thinks the violence in January 2008 was anything, what somebody is doing here is a test run for the violence next year. What somebody is doing by using the military against the Constitution is trying to legitimize that somebody somewhere can sit without the authority of Parliament and order the military to go on the streets and make this country a military State. We are creating a Rwanda, Somalia, DRC, Uganda and Ethiopia. We are making this country a military State as we watch. I am just from meeting my lawyers; I am going to court because I can see what they are trying to do and what they have been planning to do for the last one week. It is a test run that this Parliament that is composed of representatives of the people cannot let happen. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Article 241(3)(b) in which the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security purpoted to want to come here to make a Statement does not deal with the situation in Garissa. It does not deal with the situation in Eastleigh or Baragoi. It does not deal and never dealt with the situation in the Tana Delta. It deals with emergency and disaster. According to every lawyer, it presupposes the existence of a flood, earthquake where the Executive can ask the military--- In fact, it says that the military can come out and support other Government agencies in humanitarian activities and then appraise Parliament. But part “c” of that particular Article says that the Military can restore peace, but only with the authority and approval of Parliament. The word is “only.” If three Army officers are killed by terrorists or bandits in Garissa, the Army can only go to the police. They cannot say that they are killing and burning houses in self-defence. Who are they defending themselves against? This is not a small matter. We cannot sit back and let somebody politicize the military, because that is what they are purporting to do. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am aware that hon. Ethuro and hon. Nanok were to be arrested on Saturday. Actually, hon. Nanok was arrested on Friday. I received a phone call from the Prime Minister saying: “I am aware that one of my Ministers has been"
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