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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, go there firmly. In any event I think the Kenyan people ought to understand that we have nothing against the Judiciary. We want the Judiciary to function. In fact, we would have intervened a lot. We are doing a lot in the legal sector. We make sacrifices for everything. We do not want courts to issue vain orders. A writer was referring to the situation where we find ourselves in, in an article that I read with my brother, hon. Ngeno. He talked of judicialization of politics - a situation where politics leaves the national platform and is played on the forum of the Judiciary. There is a good decision. You want to choose to be on the Bench where you should be reserved; think through issues and be judicious, or you want to play politics. My fear is that if this situation continues, and I am speaking of this fear as a lawyer, there is no court that is going to be there in a short while. In a battle between any arm of the Government with the people of Kenya seated here or anywhere else, the people of Kenya, duly elected to represent those people, that arm of the Government will lose. Why do we have the power to summon the President of this Republic and he comes? We summon the Deputy President and he comes. We summon Cabinet Secretaries, appointed as top leadership of the Executive, and they come. The Attorney-General of the Republic comes. You are saying that now devolution means a governor can do what they want to do?"
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