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    "id": 1061842,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I wanted you to hear me because I think I am making an important point to the Chair. If you read and listened to the Communication of the Speaker this morning, I was extremely uncomfortable with it because some of its elements were like giving a directive to the House. The Speaker’s powers are very limited. The House makes decisions and resolutions in Plenary. Therefore, the Speaker’s directive that there will be no further meetings of Committees virtually or otherwise without the approval of the House, those directives must be subject to the resolutions of this House. I am saying this because we have come from a moment whereby the Executive seems to be directing the activities of the House. The nature of Parliament is very different from the Executive or the courts. The Executive can make a resolution by the President making a decision. While we go on recess, the President can make any decision he is justified to make under the law. When Parliament is on recess or is not sitting, we have no way of making a resolution. Going by the history of this country, whenever Parliament is not in Session, that is when terrible things tend to happen. I want us to bear that in mind. Around this Coronavirus (COVID-19) activity, there are issues of the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), which have not been resolved up to now. We do not know what will happen when we are out. There will be a second KEMSA."
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