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    "id": 1483623,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The people of Kericho County have quarreled, and we have come before this House to seek justice. We pray for nothing less than justice in the interest of the people of Kericho. I want to make two quick observations: One is unanimous by what colleagues have said, that point of order number one has not only been determined by Parliament itself, but none other than the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kenya in the case of Wambora versus Meru County Assembly and 37 others of 2015; where it has been firmly established on what you do with a Parliamentary process either in Parliament or at the county assembly once an exercise has commenced. Therefore, on that count, I plead that the counsel for governor notices and appreciates that particular issue. Second and most important, is on this issue - I wish my good friend Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale listens keenly to this - there is what you call the hierarchy of law, where the Constitution reigns supreme and sits at the top. When a matter is not sufficiently addressed in the Constitution, you look for it in a statute or legislation that you have passed here. Where there is none, what follows after that, is checking if there is an already established case in law. The Speaker of Kericho County Assembly in his affidavit, and it is hereby presented in volume eight of the documents from the Assembly, cited court decisions that have been made on this particular issue. Therefore, I do not know on what basis you would want to fault the Assembly. I have listened to counsel for governor, and there is no citation whatsoever on their part other than the application of mathematics and this theory we are being told that there is no half or quarter of a human being. I thought that being a House of procedure, we would establish a practice that has been established in our courts of law. What I find extremely curious though is a very dangerous invitation that the counsel for the governor is sending out to you. I listened to him. He wants to lead you to make a decision that has never been made by any other Speaker in this House. He wants you to make a determination on appeal and dismiss this case altogether---"
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