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    "content": "Section 58 says that the President will define the place where Parliament will sit. I wish to make it clear that the building in which we are is Parliament Building, but the people who sit in this building are Members of the National Assembly. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, being a Member of the National Assembly means that you are not in this House to represent only the constituency that elected you or the party that nominated you. You are here to represent Kenya as a nation. It is, therefore, important to understand those two distinctions. Rotational sitting of Parliament is not something that we eschew as Kenyans. Already, we subscribe to the doctrine of separation of powers. The Executive in this country does not only sit in Nairobi. They have provincial heads, where you have Provincial Commissioners (PCs) representing the President, together with all other civil servants. The other Arm of the Government is the Judiciary. The supreme court in the Judiciary is the Court of Appeal, which sits in Nairobi as the central registry, but it has regular sittings in Kisumu, Nakuru, Nyeri, Eldoret and Mombasa. That is the national arrangment of the Court of Appeal. It pains me to mention this to my very good friend, Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry. Clearly, he has not been informed sufficiently. Maybe, he has been too much in the military. If not, he would have known that that the European Union Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, where I was recently, has rotational sittings outside Brussels."
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