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    "id": 771345,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Members need to be reminded that the campaigns for EALA stopped yesterday. I have noted a number of candidates for disqualification. The Members of this House should not campaign for candidates seeking election to EALA. We are supposed to vote. They need to know that even this election is guided by rules. Hon. Speaker, I was saying that I was shocked and surprised that Kyalo Mbugu, who is a renowned lawyer in this country, issued an order to Parliament to stop this process. There are two reasons that have surprised me. First, the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal has no jurisdiction on this matter. It is a simple matter. This matter is already before Parliament, and not with political parties. If the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal wanted to get involved, they should have done that before. More importantly, the same Petitioners went to the High Court but they did not succeed in getting an injunction. The case has been pushed to 29th January, 2018. They then ran to the tribunal to get an injunction. How can you have the same case proceeding in two different courts? This tribunal should have known this because it is a matter that is in the public domain. Furthermore, I have information that members of the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal are in Mombasa, as we speak. It is only the Chairman who was in Machakos. He called to come to Nairobi and sign this order. This is something about which we need to speak with the members of the tribunal. Let them not misuse their powers. The Chief Justice (CJ) had expressed his concern with this Tribunal, especially when it handled cases of political parties during the primaries. There were lots of illegalities that happened in the tribunal. Hon. Speaker, we need to ask the CJ to either reign in on this Tribunal, which is spoiling the otherwise good name of the Judiciary or, as a House, we reform the Tribunal so that it can transact its business properly. I was shocked but I also want to agree with Leader of the Majority Party that that was an exercise in futility. This House cannot be injuncted by the Tribunal. Otherwise, I wanted to second the Motion. Let us extend the sitting time and finish this matter so that we can have our representation at the EALA. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I second."
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