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    "id": 1342290,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. TJ Kajwang’",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, there are too many competing interests. There are too many people trying to compete with us in the space of law- making. You start with the President, he wants to make laws through reservations and vetoing. You go to the Cabinet Secretaries, they want to clone the space of making laws through delegated legislation. There is one Constitution which states clearly that Parliament, under Articles 95 and 96, has the sole authority of legislating. We have to speak on the rooftops and in every political pulpit that we get. We must preach this message so that they know that it is the function of the National Assembly and Senate to make laws and nobody else. If you look at this issue that we are talking about, it came by way of a memo or a circular. I would like to call out the Director-General of KeRRA. That is the person who actually penned this thing. He knows the law. He knows that he cannot make regulations out there. He knows that a memo or a circular, if it has the force of law, is a law-making instrument. That is why when we were debating earlier here on delegated legislation, we said that even guidelines must not be issued out there if they have a force of law, without passing through this House. So, if you want to make law, for heaven’s sake change the law. Just amend the law and we will be peaceful. Everybody will be happy. Look at this Report. There are these people called 9th National and County Coordinating Summit. It is a body unknown to law. Which law incorporates this body calling itself 9th National and County Coordinating Summit? Then I have a problem with these people called 9th Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee. If you read the Report, you will realise that it is these people who actually told the Cabinet Secretary to amend the law. Even looking at the thinking, it is that the Cabinet Secretary can change the law. The Cabinet Secretary cannot change the law. Of course, it is us who must change the law. So, this kind of people who want to feel big when they are themselves small should be resisted at all costs. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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