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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "powers. They understood the parameters of the rule of law. They understood the need for space between the various organs of Government. Hon. Speaker, I want to confirm that I mourn the ascendancy of Prof. J.B. Ojwang to the Supreme Court, because what has become of our Public Law Division is a total loss to the jurisprudence of the great jurists of this country on the Bench, and the great lawyers of this country took a lot of time to develop it. I mean I have read so many cases. No organ of Government interferes in the internal workings or proceedings of the other. The court has said that. The Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court have said that several times before. Today a judge sits and purports to stop Parliament from debating. Is there a set principle of law? Hon. Speaker, you served in this legal system. You are one of the best minds in it. When was an injunction issued against a Government? Whether you want to represent it as a conservatory order or whatsoever, when did anybody purport to injunct the people of Kenya? This is because that is what we are seeing. Hon. Speaker, I want to give another answer because hon. Members have already said that, that order is a nullity. It is null and void. It does not exist. It is of no legal effect and I want to urge the Senate never to go hobnobbing over things they can read in the Constitution. They ignore this order and proceed with their oversight. Hon. Speaker, it is not that we have no remedy. In fact, let me tell the people of Kenya that we have exercised a lot of restraint, particularly as the National Assembly. I wanted to read the provisions of Article 95(5)(a) and (b). Hon. Members this is what it says:- “The National Assembly –"
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