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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will try and make progress. Sen. Omogeni has sent me to the President. Before I deliver his message, I must first get an undertaking from him that he will read paragraph 16 of the President’s speech. If he did so, then he will not need to send me to the President. The President gave his commitment. He said: “On this matter of oversight and holding Government accountable, my administration commits to restore the place of Parliament in our democracy by respecting the autonomy and oversight authority of Parliament on the Executive.” If that is done, then we do not need to have the kind of debate we are having. I appreciate that he needs to read and understand the speech. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, another important issue highlighted in this Speech, alongside the theme of independent institutions is the place of the Judiciary. The President said there is significance in the first act you undertake when you get into office. He said when you have an opportunity to be somewhere, the first thing you do is quite remarkable in both African culture and in general practice across the globe. The first act, a public function that the President undertook which he reported to the House, was to appoint six judges of the Court of Appeal who had been condemned by the previous administration for reasons nobody knew. That was quite shameful because we have judges of the High Court who have been presiding over court cases yet people are questioning their characters."
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