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    "id": 1017140,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1017140/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "and Senators have about 10 members of staff, so, collectively, 400 members of staff are not sure whether they are going home or not. Their families are now full of anxiety because once a Member leaves, their constituency office is dissolved. All the 4000 families that are relying on Members will have to go home. There is a bigger picture that the CJ may not have looked at. The international community is watching. With that, there might be decisions that will be made by this House that will be illegitimate. Where do you place Kenya in terms of its predictability on policy and decision making? Those are some of the fundamental issues that a responsible CJ ought to have looked at: “If I make this decision, what is the bigger implication?” It is not just enough to say simplistically that Article 261 of the Constitution gives me the right to convey a decision to the President. If it was not simplistic, the advice would have been conveyed in 2015 or in 2017 but the CJ then realised – or the advisory he had - he could not do that yet it was perhaps the best time because the elections were just around the corner. Here we are with two years to the elections and in the middle of a pandemic and a financial crunch, and all we are thinking of is to send one Arm of the Government away. You are not thinking that if we go within the 21 days, who will appropriate the money for election because we will not be there? Who will oversee the Executive and the Judiciary when you do not have one Arm of Government in place? Let me ignore the pros and cons of his decision because I believe it will be canvassed and there will be more people talking about it."
}