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    "id": 599002,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "to hold whatever views under the sun. However, Parliament, the National Assembly specifically, has already passed the law. If anybody out there is unhappy with it, the only recourse is to challenge it in court using the provisions of Article 165 of the Constitution. I saw you took active part in the enactment of that legislation, but that is not to say that it is the most perfect. Anybody is at liberty to say they do not think Parliament should have done this and that. If they think it was sneaked in and if “sneaking in” is the language used out there, they should know it is not used in the Chamber here. If that is the language used out there in the streets or wherever, let us just allow them to use that language. As far as we are concerned, the law was passed in the House in the full glare of Kenyans and nothing was “sneaked in”. Those of you who participated in the Committee of the whole House, like yourself, will agree with me that nothing was sneaked in. Everything, as I witnessed, was robustly debated. Many proposals were rejected while others were accepted by the membership of the Committee. As far as I am concerned, there is nothing that was sneaked in. They are at liberty to express themselves one way or the other. Let us also appreciate that they can comment on what we do just as much as we can comment on what they do and how they do it. Let us live within the democratic values of living and let live so that they should defend our right to do what we do and we should defend their right to do what they do, including holding views that we sneak things through the House, if they think so. However, we cannot fail to do our work because somebody thinks one way or the other about how we do our things. Is there something else about that report? Let us go to the next progress report by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs."
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