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    "id": 1549160,
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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": "supposed to gazette these regulations, but we leave it hanging. Therefore, people do not care. They say, what will happen, anyway? If, indeed, you took them before a court of law, there would be no sanctions against them, because the law is silent on that issue. The best the judge can do is to ask that person to be prudent. In fact, reading this Bill, much as it was a negotiated document, I am not satisfied with the sanctions that are now being imposed on public officers who do not follow the prescription of the time period within which you are supposed to gazette these regulations. There is a proposal for a Kshs500,000 fine. I think that is a slap on the wrist of somebody who is ignoring the gathering of the people of Kenya. The unfortunate bit is that people look at Parliament as a gathering of 410 individuals. What they do not appreciate is that extracting from the provisions of our Constitution, Parliament is a gathering of all the 50 million of Kenyans through their elected representatives. It is not possible for the entire country to agree on any simple question as a wholesome. Since we are a constitutional democracy, we have passed it in our laws and set the threshold within which once a particular threshold is passed, then it is considered to be the common position of every Kenyan that lives under the jurisdiction of the maps of our country. In the Senate, for example, it is assumed that once 24 delegations have agreed on a particular Bill, that Bill or instrument before us is considered to have been passed by everybody, including those who for one reason or the other may not have voted in support of that particular Bill. That is how democracy works. Our counterpart House passes their legislation through a simple majority, that once gathered as a House of Parliament, when a Motion or Bill is before them, once more than half of the people gathered in that particular House have passed whatever legislation, it is considered to be the binding law in the country. It is my wish and hope that we can enforce and give strength to the Houses of Parliament. We are caricatured in the newspapers and people speak all manner of things against politicians as if we are aliens and not picked from the ordinary stock and pile of the average Kenyan. The people you find in this House, whether you like them or not, are the cumulative of the ordinary Kenyans. Anything they see and they do not like from Members of Parliament (MPs) in this House, that is exactly what you will find in any gathering, as long as you put Kenyans together."
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