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    "id": 1342177,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Raso",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to support the annulment of these regulations. As you know, this House is the supreme body that makes the laws of this land. Article 94(5) of our Constitution clearly says that nobody other than this House has the authority to make regulations or laws that are binding. That is the reason everything that has to do with governance, regulations and policy must come before this House. I would like to support the Committee, particularly in line with Article 118 of our Constitution that extols the virtue of public participation. Public participation does not mean that people gather in a hall and decide on a whim on the need of a certain thing. It means that the public is given full hearing on what it is that it really wants about a particular law. For that reason, public participation is one of the areas where the Constitution - continuously in different Articles - says that people must participate in the laws that are going to govern them. When you look at university education - my colleagues will bear me witness - new universities are coming up. Universities are increasing fees and introducing courses that particular lecturers would like to run without due regard to the large masses of very poor Kenyans who are seeking higher education in this land. We actually allowed the Ministry of Education and the universities to get away with that crime."
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