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    "id": 417623,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/417623/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "JSC. If JSC had members who have question marks on their heads because Parliament has said that they should be removed, the President cannot move because the courts have said that they are superior. The laws are very clear that Parliament is the representative of the people and there is no day courts will be ahead of the people. The courts can follow the people and the people have said what they want through the Constitution, through Members of Parliament and the Senate. So who are the courts to come and start saying that they will decide for us when we should sit to discuss a matter or how we sit to discuss a matter? In this country, some cases take up to six years or ten years to conclude. So what happens on a day when the courts say that Parliament cannot discuss this issue until a judgment is made? Parliament will wait for six years to discuss an issue because the courts have said so. This Parliament has its own original jurisdiction; original, not borrowed; not given by anybody, it is original to decide on how this Parliament will act."
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