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    "id": 1342444,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1342444/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon Speaker. I do not have much to add because the law is the law. Articles 94, 95 and 96 of the Constitution have been clearly articulated by Hon. Chepkonga. As much as there is the Statutory Instruments Act, nobody, including cabinet secretaries, have the power to make laws. Not even a presidential working party. The best they can do is to make recommendations which, if adopted, then those that touch on the Constitution will have to go through a process of amending the Constitution, in line with Articles 252 to 255 from outside Parliament. If they want a parliamentary initiative to change any bit of the Constitution, then it must begin from this House. Anything touching on statutes can only be changed in line with the Constitution, either by this House or the Senate, depending on what that particular recommendation would be. I will pick up the matter with the Cabinet Secretary for Education to ensure that no recommendation from the working party that touches on the statute law or the Constitution is implemented without requisite changes to the laws. Allow me to follow it up with the Cabinet Secretary to make sure that he gives a statement on what he is doing in line with all the recommendations. If there are recommendations that touch on changes in the law, then he must work together with the Departmental Committee on Education and Research to bring those changes. If there are any changes that touch on the Constitution, I am certain that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is also more than willing to assist. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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