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    "id": 1019206,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This matter is important that I wish to enjoin the distinguished Senator for Mombasa. It is not that the President did it, but that the President is not getting proper legal advice. ICDC, KRC and KPA are established by Acts of Parliament. The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is also established by an Act of Parliament. How do you wake up and put all these parastatals under one Board and one super management without coming to Parliament? It is a serious violation of the law. How is the Board of KPA going to account to the people of Kenya, the National Treasury and Parliament? How is the Board of ICDC and, in any case - I did not hear what Sen. Faki said - how do you take a giant parastatal like KPA and put it under a dying ICDC? The ICDC was there at Independence harnessing resources for Africanization. It is no longer functional; it is there by name. How many times do you hear of ICDC anywhere? How do you now wake up and say railways, with a massive debt on Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), KPA is going to service the debt of KRC under the SGR? This is a matter where, with a functioning National Assembly and the Senate, we want to see the Committee chaired by Sen. Wamatangi and the one chaired by Sen. Kibiru, because ICDC is functional under Committee on Finance and Budget---. The Kenya Pipeline Company is functionally under the Committee on Energy. The KRC will be functionally under Roads and Transportation. I request you to order that the Committees coalesce together and question this Executive Order. Call the Attorney- General to inform this House whether he is actually giving proper legal advice to the Head of State. The President is not a lawyer; he will do what he thinks is convenient to the Government. The Attorney-General is there as the principal legal advisor of the Government to tell them the dos and do nots within the law and the Constitution. Obviously, they are not doing this."
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