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    "id": 590912,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/590912/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Let me also address my mind to Section 35 of this Bill which addresses the question of contempt of court. The issue of contempt of court is an important sanction that is intended to ensure absolute, unequivocal and unchallenged respect for court orders. Indeed, the respect for court orders is one of the everlasting and enduring pillars of the rule of law. I want to use this as I applaud the specificity of this particular provision to challenge everybody in this country that unless we want to turn this country into a jungle, we have to respect court orders. Scenario which we have witnessed in the past where the Government leads in disobeying court orders is a dangerous precedent. If all of us were to decide that we will have no regard for court orders and we will contemptuously disregard court orders, then that would amount to turning this country into a jungle. There was a time when we said that this country was governed by the rule of man but now we pride ourselves as a nation governed by the rule of law."
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