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    "id": 1212718,
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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": "If you read Standing Order No.103 - and I am happy that I am in this House with my colleague, Senior Counsel Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda - it prescribes that even when there are proceedings that can be deemed to be sub judice, there is a way you bring those proceedings before the House. You are now talking about proceedings which have not been tabled in this House and we are debating a matter we do not know. I have not seen these proceedings and do not know who has filed them against who, but here we are debating. You should have procedurally asked the person who is affected by those orders, in line with Standing Order No.103, to bring the pleadings and table them before the House, then we debate to determine whether what we are about to debate is Sub Judice. I respect the courts. I have been a lawyer for Sen. Cherarkey. When he was being shunned by everybody from the Majority side, I was the only one representing him in court at 4.00 p.m. I defended Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe here, and I am a respected man in his county. I am standing here in defence of this House and the rule of law. I would say the same even if it was happening on the other side because I know the critical role that this House plays. If tomorrow the Governor for Nyamira is summoned and he serves us with an injunction, then what will be my work as the Senator for Nyamira? Mr. Deputy Speaker, I plead with you to reconsider what you are about to do for the sake of this country and House. Sen. Cheruiyot, I am pleading with you; do not look at these small fights here. Look at the interest of this House. Let us not kill this House. I have said that we have precedent. Sen. Kang’ata was a Majority Whip. You sat and passed resolutions. The former Speaker was not even a lawyer; I am happy the substantive Speaker is a lawyer. Members of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) are looking at him. I once served as the chair of the LSK when the late Chief Justice of this Republic, Justice Gicheru, swore in the late President Kibaki at night. We told them that those things would come back to haunt him. When Kenyans enacted the Constitution 2010, a proviso was put in that Constitution barring the Chief Justice from doing the same. You must protect your office and the reputation of the office of the Speaker for posterity. If there is any court order or pleadings, bring them to the House. Table them here, we debate and make a decision. We are a senior House, the ‘Upper House.’ Senators, I rest my case."
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