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    "id": 1087146,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "I had Sen. Shiyonga and her Committee talking about their activities. However, I think they should be tabling here a list saying: Makueni County is not giving contracts to young people. The Ministry of Labour or the Ministry of Defence is not giving young people and women opportunities. However, when we look those as just mere suggestions, we will try and amend things. We will come here with new rules; we will try and change the Constitution. There will be BBI Two and Three in the next Government because our problem is not just the laws we have, but our attitude when it comes to implementing. The problem is not the Constitution; it is constitutionalism. The problem is the rule of law; how will we look at what we have. We do not need anything new. I will urge Members to support this Bill by Sen. (Dr.) Zani. I also ask the other arms of Government that in a constitutional democracy like the one that we have, there is no arm of Government that is above the other. No arm of Government looks up for affirmation, but we look sideways to move together. The Executive needs the Judiciary. The Judiciary needs Parliament. You remember when we used to have fights with the our neighbours in the National Assembly, we used to say it is very defeatist to keep saying which House is the upper, lower, or bigger House. It is like a bird that flies and asks which wing is more important; the left wing or the right wing. You need both wings for you to fly. We need each other. Madam Deputy Speaker, we must all remember that whether you are a judge in the Judiciary, a CS, Principal Secretary (PS), Member of Parliament (MP), or Member of a County Assembly (MCA), we are serving the same people. When we have concerted effort, we would not even need the law that Sen. (Dr.) Zani has brought. However, because of bad manners; when some people get a seat, it goes into their head, and they think that “waondio wa kusema.” They are the ones to say and no one will tell them. I tell my friends that the term of this Government ends in the next 300 and something days. We will go back to the people and have to explain what we have and have not been able to do. Let us have that attitude when it comes to respecting resolutions that have come from the people of Kenya through the elected representatives. I support this Bill."
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