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    "id": 417621,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/417621/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "The doctrine of separation of power presupposes that Parliament be allowed to work, do its job and if someone thinks that something is wrong with what Parliament did, then they can go to court. I want to state this clearly that we agree that courts have a very important role to play in this country and they can actually annul whatever this Parliament decides. They can do that but the courts must wait. They must take their time. They must wait for the right time to interpret. Let them not come so fast. Let them not interfere with parliamentary processes. If a law provides that this is the way we will impeach a governor, that the MCA shall act, then it is a process provided for very well in the law. It is self propelling. It does not require courts’ intervention; it is self propelling that MCAs act, you get to the Senate, the Senate has to sit within seven days, then they must form a committee which must sit within ten days and decide. It is self propelling. Then the courts wait and then say: “Look, Parliament has sat, they have said this and that but we think that they erred in this or that place.” That is when they come in; at the end of the process. They cannot come in between."
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