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    "id": 1482132,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "to sit here as Senators and pass a law that gives work to only one House. Anything that Kenyans concern devolution. Therefore, I want to challenge all our colleagues that we will have to do this until the drafters of many of these Bills begin to appreciate that Kenya has a bicameral Parliament. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you are a legal scholar. Sen. (Prof.) Ojienda here knows that when you read how Parliament, the National Assembly, and the Senate are sometimes used interchangeably in the Constitution, you can tell that by spirit, it was intended to read Parliament nearly all through. Only by editing or lack of proper attention to detail in the drafting of some of those clauses do you find that on certain provisions or certain offices, it is said that Parliament shall legislate, or Parliament shall approve on others, it says National Assembly. Therefore, this is something that we have spoken about, and we have gone to great lengths to speak about. On the rest, I hope that the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, considering this Bill, will listen and consider the memorandum sent, which I pointed out in my moving notes, by the current Office of the Registrar of Political Parties. She shared with me, and that I must declare this: comparable jurisdictions that have moved from having a registrar as set up in Kenya to being an independent commission as is being proposed in this Bill. I wish to be bound by the collective wisdom of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights on which of the two models would work. What is proposed in the Bill, or how can this Bill be made better? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I beg to reply. Finally, I beg to request to you that under Standing Order No.(66)(3), you defer the putting of question until a later date. I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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