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    "id": 1028815,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I am really proud of our colleagues, and I appreciate the work that they did in ensuring that these 24 laws that are not in compliance with the demands of our Constitution as per the dictates of Article 110 (3) are nullified, until the National Assembly comes back to its senses. If this is not an indictment of a full House, if this is not an indictment of the leadership of a country that signed these laws--- I do not buy the political narrative that I see being peddled here this afternoon that the President was not properly briefed and did not know that these laws did not meet the demands of our Constitution. I am sure that they knew, but because we have to come to a place where we believe that the culture of this country is such that anything that the Senate says can be ignored, they chose to ignore. Long live our Judiciary. Long live the judges that made this very wise decision and ensured that from now going forward, if you read this ruling, it puts notice on even legislation that is active before both Houses that have not met the demands of Article 110 (3) of our Constitution. Madam Deputy Speaker, if that is not great for this House, I do not know what else is. This is perhaps one of the most important rulings that devolution has secured in the last ten years of its existence since this current Constitution was promulgated. Madam Deputy Speaker, I join my colleagues in congratulating the team and reminding them that we remain vigilant and watchful."
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