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    "id": 1122692,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1122692/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "The Chair of Departmental Committee on Sports, you should not be a worried man. Do not waste our time. Continue with your investigations and bring a report to this House. Do not be scared. I have seen them threatening CSs. They cannot even impeach a PS or a CS. They do not have powers. They cannot even impeach a president or a deputy president. The initiation must start from this House. If we do not initiate, they will wait for that impeachment until cows come home. That is why some of us decided to come here. This is where the power of legislation, budgeting and oversight is exercised. They should be very busy with defending devolution, going to counties and holding governors to account. Governors are stealing our money and when they appear before the Senate’s County Public Accounts and Investments Committee, there is no single report of that Committee since the Senate started to indict governors. Why is that the case? They have gone to bed with governors. That should stop. I do not want to call it an entity. That is Parliament. Even this House must respect it but I want to tell the Chair, let us not debate. Just do your work and they must earn their respect. That is why the people doing this nonsense called BBI; you wanted to give them more powers. No, the people of Kenya in their wisdom said they should not be given powers in the 2010 Referendum. Hon. Charles Kilonzo was with me in the 10th Parliament. We denied them power. You cannot make them like the United States of America (USA). If this country wants the Senate to be very powerful, then we should adopt the USA model where Senate is the overriding House. This Constitution is very clear. The only problem is including the bicameral and we should not even ask why the Executive is disobeying court orders. The Senate is disobeying this Constitution."
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