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    "id": 1223396,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to agree with the Committee on the question of public participation. Under Article 10 of the Constitution of Kenya, if you read it together with Article 118, you will realize that public participation is one of the foundational principles. If you look at our Standing Orders, you will note that public participation is very much engrained. It is very saddening, having read the Report, that core and equal constitutional commissions were not consulted. Even the Parliamentary Service Commission, which represents these Members was not consulted. It is important that every single thing that comes before this House and every single organ that is a creature of the Constitution abides by the question of public participation. If not for any other reason, and I want to agree with the Chair, we must throw and reject these regulations on account of gross breach and violation of the Constitution. The Article that creates these constitutional commissions and independent offices provides that all of them are creatures of the Constitution and shall work under its authority. Nobody created the SRC to act extra constitutionally."
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