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    "id": 1063883,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "She is right. She said he is supposed to be educated. She actually agrees with me. Madam Temporary Speaker, that is with regard to the SRC. This is the proper return to imperial presidency that Kenyans avoided. If as a President you can determine the salaries of teachers, doctors or parliamentarians by simply nominating seven of your cronies to the SRC. You can tell them: “I do not like these parliamentarians, pay them peanuts.” What will we do? What will be our point of recourse? Madam Temporary Speaker, I serve in a constitutional commission. You know that I represent you in the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). Any proper thinking of how, for example, to strengthen our independent institutions, if I was asked as Sen. Cheruiyot to propose a way and means of doing so, one of the things that I would propose is that let it be determined in our Constitution what percentage of budget each of our independent commissions are supposed to have. The reason the PSC survives is because we have got Members of the National Assembly and Senate. Therefore, I sympathise with an institution like the JSC. Every time you meet them, they ask you: “Surely, are you people not mindful of the fact that Kenyans need access to justice?” When you think about the police, for example, we criticize the Inspector-General of Police, Mutyambai, and the previous ones. However, I know for the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) to function independently, all it will take is for them to have their independent vote. How do you expect the IG to disagree with the PS and CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government when, tomorrow morning, he has to call them to ask for a budget line? It is not possible. It is the old English adage; he who pays the piper calls the tune."
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