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    "id": 1564374,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1564374/?format=api",
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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": "If we allow Nyamira to have two or three sittings, what will stop Sen. Methu or Sen. Wambua from starting another parliament tomorrow? Sen. Wambua can choose to have another parliament in Kitui. What precedence are we setting? I know we are starved of time, but I want to make this request. Mr. Speaker, Sir. There is also another entity that has failed us. Our Judiciary must stop hiding under the cover of independence. Independence is not a cover for incompetence. The judge who sits in Nyamira is the one who has given orders that have caused this level of confusion. Can those judges walk out of Nyamira Law Courts and head to the County Assembly of Nyamira and make a determination of what needs to happen? How do you sit as a judge, driven home every evening on taxpayers' money when this kind of maladministration is happening and being visited on the people of Nyamira? That is not right. The Chief Justice actually needs to bring this matter to her attention. When a judge issues orders that break apart a county and perpetuates a situation where there are two sittings in a county assembly, then it speaks of their incompetence. That is not interference with judicial independence. When we pass laws in this House and there is lack of clarity, as Parliament, we endeavor to provide clarity. We even inform the users of that particular law the intention of Parliament. Can that judge make a determination of this case in the public interest? This is a matter of great public interest because money is being lost in Nyamira because nobody oversights what is happening in the county executive yet these games continue while we watch. Mr. Speaker, Sir, can you direct that at the rise of this House, if there is nothing more urgent, the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations heads to Nyamira and sits there until they resolve this particular issue? It has taken 45 days yet they are giving us a progress report. Sen. Abbas and your team, you cannot be proud of yourself."
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