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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the proposal that has been made here. If people want the luxury or pleasure of seeing CSs appearing before the House as a whole, then we remove the Mace and the Speaker and have a kamukunji. Let the CSs appear before a kamukunji of the Senate, but not the Senate. Secondly, the conditionalities that have been imposed on the appearance of CSs have deliberately created a shuttle for protecting CSs from parliamentary inquiry. At the Committees, we do not have limitation on what you can ask a CS. The CS who does not turn up can face sanctions. I am yet to be told that any Committee has imposed a sanction on a CS and there were no consequences to it. Why are we handling CSs with kids’ gloves? Why are we mollycoddling them? I do not see the essence of breaching the Constitution for expedient reasons. There is absolutely no reason we should not follow the Constitution. The power donated to us to make Standing Orders is highly limited. It cannot give us the right to override the Constitution. A river does not flow higher than its source. We cannot purport to be flowing higher than the Constitution. I am sure the bullfighter understands that saying from where we come from. As I conclude, I am endorsing the point that the Senator for Taita-Taveta County has made here. We have very limited time for Committees. If we take away time from Committees to sit through the Plenary, we shall not be doing justice to them."
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