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    "id": 1097595,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097595/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, another thing that has come out is that any amendment to the Constitution that touches more than one part should have multiple questions. I am not sure how that would affect us because if you are amending five connected sections, then you need to have five Bills in this House. How do you even process them? It has made them so complicated and we might have to re-publish all the Bills that are in the process and split them into 10 to 20 Bills. I am not sure whether we have that time to go through all those things. There are so many things that we unfortunately thought we would get a solution to, but it seems we have dug deeper into murk of confusion because of this. I hope the parties that are proceeding to the Supreme Court would also have the future of Kenya in mind in terms of the legislative capacity of Parliament and the legislative framework through which people can change their Constitution and their laws. Unfortunately, as mentioned in the courts, if the people cannot amend their Constitution to fit the circumstances of the day, then we are headed to the alternative which is setting the Constitution aside and starting afresh. I am not sure that is where Kenya wants to go. Therefore, I want you to exercise a lot of insight into this matter. As you guide the House, we must look at all those issues so that when we come back in September, we will know whether any legislation we will be making will be in vain. Hon. Speaker, it is those same courts that have declared the Appropriations Act and the Supplementary Appropriations Act and rendered them unlawful and yet, they are part of the people that spent the money. Therefore, I am not even sure whether we should be going to the court and asking it to refund the money they spent on a Bill that they themselves declared illegal. I think it is this almost cantankerous way of looking at things where people are not exercising their minds in terms of the bigger implications. Where is the public interest in the decisions they are making? That is, perhaps, putting us in this particular situation? This could be fuelling frustrations that people cannot get what they want from the legal system because it has been captured. People will then go for the alternative and that is not something that we really want for this country. Therefore, I want to urge you that, as you look through that, we must bring up all these issues so that if need be, we can have a meeting with the Judiciary so that they can see the implications of what they are doing. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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