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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, even as I align myself with the sentiments expressed by my brother, Hon. Wandayi, I read the ruling by the High Court on this same matter with a fine tooth comb. I needed to understand the gist of this entire issue. One thing that caught my attention, Hon. Speaker, is what the court said: that we are being governed by a constitutional dispensation of the year 2010. This Constitution went into details as highlighting these offices, some of which are now under question. And one fundamental issue that these judges raised is that the CAS was going to be a person just between the Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary. So, by inference, the CAS is a boss to a Principal Secretary. Hon. Speaker, what the court said, and what we are still not addressing holistically, is that if Kenyans thought that that office was going to be as important as this House would want to make it, Kenyans would have put it in the Constitution. The court went on to say that if 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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