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    "id": 1161003,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1161003/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "In the event that we are wrong and the Government is having a different position from the position that we take, we can go to the Judiciary. That is the only body that can interpret laws for us. In this case, we have a decision from the High Court that is unchallenged. In the High Court Decision No.252 of 2016, the Court interpreted Article 218(1)(a) and said that conditional grants should not be provided for in the DORA. If we are to respect our Constitution, then we are all bound by that interpretation. The Treasury, National Assembly and the Senate are bound. That is the only way we can say we are a country that we respect the rule of law. If anybody was aggrieved by that decision, then the best thing they could have done is to appeal against that decision. However, as the position stands today, that remains a decision from our courts of law and one that must be respected. The third point I want to make is to make an appeal just the way Sen. Olekina has done. All the Members of the National Assembly, including those who have been elected from my County of Nyamira should know that the people who elected us, both Members of Parliament (MPs) and Senators, reside in our counties. The money we send to counties is meant to provide services to those people. Our uncles, aunties, cousins all reside in counties. Therefore, this idea of MPs sending"
}