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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "and seeking to extend, the questions we were asking are why they had to wait until the last minute, where the officers within the Ministry were and what they were doing. We needed justification to accept those extensions. This particular section of the Statutory Instruments Act made it mandatory that the CS should come and make consultations with us before seeking extension, but it was not done. In fact, the Attorney-General did not come. The argument of him being the Chief Legal Advisor of the Government did not arise because he did not come to explain himself. After failing to honour the Committee’s invitation on 8th December, 2022, we decided, resolved and made two recommendations. One, Pursuant to Section 15(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act and Standing Order No. 195(4) (b) of the Senate Standing Orders, the Select Committee on Delegated Legislation recommends that the Senate resolve that the Statutory Instruments exemption from expiry Regulations, Legal Notice No.217 of 2022 be annulled. Secondly, that the respective Cabinet Secretary urgently republish and submit to the Senate for scrutiny, the respective Statutory Instruments pursuant to Section 11 of the Statutory Instruments Act, 2013. It is my duty, therefore, to Move this Motion, which speaks to what we found out on behalf of the Senate. This is an indictment on the office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Musalia Mudavadi; that your Cabinet Secretaries are not following what is required of them under the law. Your Cabinet Secretaries are not doing what is supposed to be done under the Statutory Instruments Act. As a Select Committee, we are not happy that your Cabinet Secretaries are not cooperating with the Senate Delegated Legislation Committee. We are annulling these rules and we are inviting them to republish them. Since the Prime Cabinet Secretary is in charge of coordination between the Senate, the National Assembly and the Cabinet, he should speak to this issue because there are serious legal consequences that can follow because of it. We feel sad that we could call the Attorney General to a Committee meeting and he sends someone who has no answers. We gave him an opportunity and agree on a date, but he failed to show up. This is the Attorney General of the Republic of Kenya. The reason he exists is because he needs to do the correct thing within the law. As a Committee, we are not happy. Members expressed dissatisfaction in the manner in which 1764 Regulations, which are supposed to operate 400 Acts of Parliament, were not being handled with the seriousness of purpose that the Office of the Attorney General and the Cabinet Secretaries concerned ought to."
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