Your client is Parliament, not a party; remain honest even when unwelcome – Speaker

As a result, he has charged Legal Counsel to Parliaments across Africa that their ultimate loyalty was to Parliament as a constitutional institution and not to any political party or individual.

Touching on accountability and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Speaker charged counsel to subject every Bill, amendment, application for constitutional validation, Private Member’s bill and subsidiary legislation to objective and analytically consistent scrutiny, regardless of political interest.

He said what the majority requires and what the national interest demands is a parliamentary counsel capable of subjecting legislation to rigorous technical scrutiny, identifying constitutional vulnerabilities candidly, and improving legislative language to withstand judicial scrutiny.