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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to appreciate the work done by the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. I take this opportunity to recognize the presence of the Narok County Assembly administrative staff who have come to visit the Senate. It will not be good of me to fail to make comments and appreciate them for the good work that they do. Narok County receives about Kshs8.8 billion a year in terms of the sharable revenue and these are the officers who advise the MCAs in the counties to develop good budgets. The amount of work that they do is seldom recognized. Today, I would like to tell them that I appreciate the work that they do and hope that they can observe how we do things in Parliament. We recognize our secretariat for the good work that they do for us. Otherwise, we would not achieve much as a Senate. We must always do credit to where it is due. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you for allowing me to appreciate them and encourage them to visit. I will address the Narok County Assembly soon so I take the opportunity to invite my colleagues to come with me. I will share more details on the planned visit on our platform so that we can share experiences on how we do things. Secondly, I believe in the separation of powers of the three arms of Government; the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. I appreciate the work that has been done by the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights in representing and fighting for the independence of this House. The High Court of Kenya found it wise to interpret the law the way it ought to be interpreted in terms of oversight. It will be suicidal if Article 96 of the Constitution gives us the power to oversight on revenue that is allocated to counties but one arm of the Government interprets the law differently. I encourage the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights to fight this battle all the way to the Supreme Court. I encourage the Chairperson of the Committee to continue fighting this battle all the way to the Supreme Court, so that we can have a clear separation of powers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, quite often, I hear people criticizing the Judiciary and I take great exception of that because the Judiciary ought to be independent. However, when it meddles into the affairs of the Senate or this arm of Government, then it becomes a little bit tricky. I know we have had a lot of sibling rivalry, but for anyone to say that there is no piece of legislation that affects counties, really beats the purpose as to why we should have an independent Parliament."
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