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    "content": "Hon. Members, I do know for a fact that hon. Chepkong’a, as the Chair of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, would want to say his bit on this. I wanted us to make some progress. I know we still have about 19 more requests. I am just wondering how many more of us we should allow to--- Nobody knows this better than hon. Ababu Namwamba about Article 1, that deals with sovereignty. All sovereign power is derived from the people. Indeed, Parliament represents the will of the people and exercises their sovereignty. That is Article 94 of the Constitution. Is that not so? Judicial authority is also derived from the people, but you see, the only place where the people exercise their will directly is when they are electing their representatives. Those representatives as well as the national Executive, go ahead to appoint those who also exercise those other functions. I mean I do not understand this competition. Why should there be competition? As far as I am concerned, the Legislature has allowed the Judiciary to do its work. I think it is this thing that we really need to address hon. Members. Let us look to a situation whereby the views being expressed here will be used in some dialogue at some point. This is because it cannot just be my view but it must be the views of this House. We started saying this and now it appears to be getting out of hand. The Auditor- General is performing his work as per the Constitution."
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