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    "id": 1082468,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1082468/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to respond to two issues. One is on the role of the Attorney-General. According to the Constitution, he is the legal adviser of the Government. Therefore, I seek to give authority to the Attorney-General, who is the Government’s sole legal advisor, to make a determination. This will ensure that we avoid the very issues that the Leader of the Majority Party is talking about – that, tomorrow somebody will claim that the Expressway from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Rironi and ABC passes through the Counties of Machakos and Nairobi, and therefore, it involves county governments. To clear that mischief, it is exactly what I intended to do with this New Clause 21A that the Government’s legal advisor will make a determination, ab initio, that a particular project does not involve county governments. This will ensure that tomorrow nobody will go to court to argue that that Expressway passes through Machakos but the people of Machakos were never consulted; or that it touches Kiambu or Nairobi but the people were never consulted. I do things for posterity. I do not do things to excite anybody. I do not legislate in this House to even please the Executive or those who are in power today. Therefore, I will still stand with this amendment. It is for posterity. It is the right thing to do. I wish those people will invoke their conscience to support it."
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