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    "id": 494269,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "ruling of this House. Unless there is a different ruling or resolution, this House must do its duty in a manner that makes it impossible for anybody to interfere with it, not even the Executive. Our Executive may be offended but we beg you as a believer in the rule of law, that whatever we do here, nobody can suspend our Standing Orders. If they want, they can guide the process when we are making law. The Executive or anybody else is allowed to canvass so that the result does not offend them but, in the absence of that canvassing, the law of the land stands. I want to plead with my colleagues that whoever we may seem to offend and whoever we may want to help, we have to do this for posterity – that is for the future/eternity. That shall judge us as correct as the Parliament of the day. I think your guidance on this matter will help the whole Parliament, not just this National Assembly. That is because the Senate is under the same predicament and they do not seem to find a solution. Earlier on, they thought that the courts were a solution. They seemed to think so. I want you - in a defiant manner - to stamp the authority and the dignity of this Parliament and save this country from an outside body which thinks that we are here and we are not the lawmakers. Thank you."
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