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    "id": 1551093,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support the Committee's position on the Consideration of the Senate Amendments to the Houses of Parliament Bill. As the Mover, Hon. Chepkonga, said when he was moving the Bill, many of the amendments of the Consideration of the Senate Amendments to the Houses of Parliament (Bicameral Relations) Bill that have been proposed by the Senate have been overtaken by time. It is important to note that as the House considers the amendments passed by the Senate, at the time the Committee was considering the Bill, the Supreme Court's ruling had not come out. However, now the Supreme Court ruling is out. I take this opportunity to note with great appreciation, the great work that has been done by the judges of the Supreme Court in arbitrating on a matter that should never have ended up in court in the first place, leave alone finding its way up to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kenya. These are issues that the two Houses should have resolved between them. In Chinua Achebe’s book of Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo noted the desire to celebrate all our achievements, irrespective of whether other people are celebrating them or not. He said that the lizard that jumped from the tall Iroko tree to the ground has to celebrate and praise itself if no one else does. We are at such a point as the National Assembly. Having jumped from our big Iroko tree - we must celebrate, whether anybody else praises and celebrates us or not - our fortitude and commitment to the spirit and letter of the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya that was promulgated by Kenyans in 2010. We have been vindicated by the Supreme Court."
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