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    "speaker_name": "Hon Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, in trying to find a solution to the predicament, I want to refer you to a ruling made on 10th February, 2011 by hon. Marende, so that we can protect ourselves. After asking you to refer to that ruling, I want to raise the issue that the courts in our country – and I want hon. Members to indulge me - seem to say that whenever anybody runs to court, parliamentary business stands injuncted. The ruling is very clear. The Senate is now going through a serious predicament. They have no business because anything they try to do is in court. Even the only little role the Senate was given of looking after the counties, they cannot do it. That is because some court somewhere is trying to do it. Those people have a very limited role and it seems to be constantly injuncted by courts. In the Marende Ruling, he said - and I will just read one sentence: “No one outside Parliament, neither the Executive nor the Judiciary, should tell Parliament in a compulsive manner what to do or not to do; when to do it or how to do it.” This is a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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