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    "id": 808560,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/808560/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Ng’ongo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "So, Hon. Speaker, we are allowed to enact law to provide for our freedom of speech, freedom of debate and even immunities. That is why the Powers and Privileges Act became necessary. We are allowed to create rules through the Standing Orders. I am sure we are all aware of this. Articles 124 and 125 of the Constitution create the avenue for us to come up with Standing Orders to guide our operations. This is important because we have already been given the powers, as a Parliament, to control ourselves and debate in this House. When the Judiciary dictates to Parliament on what we can say, the bottom line is this: It is going to interfere with the freedom of speech in this Parliament and debate. Members are going to be afraid. They would not know how to express themselves because you do not know when you are violating the order that is purportedly issued by the Judiciary."
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