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"speaker_name": "Mr. Wako",
"speaker_title": "The Attorney-General",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue is not whether the policy was right or wrong. The record will bear me out; this Parliament had approved what he corrected, and the Cabinet had approved what I corrected. On the question of correcting what this House had passed, it was ex parte . My officer was kept out. Had he gone to the court, he would have shown what the Cabinet had approved, what was discussed in this House and what was enacted. I am quite sure that, most likely, it would have made a difference to the judgment. I, very painfully, chose not to appeal in the national interest, the national interest being that had I appealed, there would have been a constitutional crisis. If I had appealed, it would have been almost impossible for the general election to have been held within the five year period, thereby generating a constitutional crisis. That was why I said âin the interest of the nation, let me not appeal, so that we proceed with the judgment as it is to ensure that the general election takes place within the five year periodâ."
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