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    "id": 1072843,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for this ruling. I will wait for you to clear with Sen. (Dr.) Ali because I want your attention. However, there is a worrying trend that is creeping into the country. That every time where there is deemed to be a threat to the right of any citizen, there is a new game called gazettement. We have seen it in this one of Hon. Isaac Mwaura and so many other Kenyans. I think it is upon us, as a House, to do two things. First of all, we have heard your explanation and I will hold my thoughts until you give the ruling that you have just mentioned. This is because I am aware now that there is a further court order staying aside that gazette notice from Senate and the one from Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) as well. Mr. Speaker, Sir, before we get there, as Parliament, we need to relook into the law on this business of the monkey games that are being played around with gazette notices. Gazette notices were not meant to be just dished and given at the whims and the feelings of Government and perhaps those who have authority to do it. We must amend the law such that first of all each time a gazette notice is issued, we are able to establish when it was done, perhaps including the time. As we are aware we know what the official Government working hours are yet sometimes we have finished business here at 11.00 p.m. like we have seen in the impeachment of some governors. Before you get home by the time you leave here, there is a gazette notice already. Of course, people will cheer it depending on which side of the political divide. Mr. Speaker, Sir, however, a time will come when that room for abuse may be used in such a way that it will threaten something so serious in the country and the blame will fall on us as legislatures. That it is you who allowed this window to be abused for quite a long time. That is something that perhaps those who are Members of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights need to look into and see what is it that we need to amend such that this window of abuse is closed. This is because what is the hurry if somebody believes they have done the right thing."
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