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    "id": 152017,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to issue a Ministerial Statement that was requested by Mr. Mungatana on the issue of state protocol occasioned by the creation of new offices within the Executive through the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment)Act No.3 of 2008 and the National Accord and Reconciliation Act, No4, 2008. The protocol of Kenya’s Executive in relation to the offices of the President, the Vice-President and the Right Hon. Prime Minister is laid down in the Constitution of Kenya, 1963 as amended from time to time and especially by the recent Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Act, No.3 of 2008 and constitutionally entrenched National Accord and Reconciliation Act. Specifically, part 2 of the Constitutional of Kenya describes the key national executive offices. Section 4 of that part creates the Office of the President as the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic. The next executive is that of the Vice-President and is established sequentially by Section 15. This Section provides that the Vice-President shall be the principal assistant to the President. The new office of the Right Hon. Prime Minister is established by Section 15(a) and so are the offices of the Deputy Prime Ministers. The National Accord inspired constitutional amendment altered Section 17 of the Constitution by inserting the expression, and I quote;"
}