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    "id": 158119,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am exactly on the Address by the President. The President talked about the status of the Coalition Government. The Address that the President made, I assume, is on behalf of the Coalition Government. Therefore, we need, as a country, to be careful on how we interpret the law. There is every danger that the more we train lawyers in this country, the more this country, I fear, is going backwards. If you give them a law, every lawer interprets it in favour of his own political party or his leader and that is not tenable. Therefore, let me proceed. I was saying that we should not reduce the significance of the offices that are established under the Constitution. The President and the Prime Minister must sort out their problems. This country does not belong to them. It belongs to the 40 million Kenyans. Even as that ruling by the Chair was able to reduce the temperatures, it goes against the tenets of our Standing Orders and this has been said very well by Dr. Khalwale. The reforms in the Judiciary cannot be brought before us if the Government is dysfunctional. This Government is not working as one Government. We have two Governments. Cabinet Ministers are working at cross-purposes. It is the most indisciplined Cabinet you will find anywhere in this region where, even before a Cabinet meeting is over, the deliberations of the meeting are public knowledge everywhere in this country. The deliberations are being discussed in the media and by ordinary Kenyans. It is a very dangerous trend. Therefore, there is every reason for the House and the country to be worried. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President spoke about the opening up of northern Kenya through the establishment of the Port of Lamu. That is very good and we support it. However, that business has been on Government records for a long time. This time, the Government should provide sufficient funding so that, that region is opened up. In fact, many of us are questioning the rationale behind the establishment of the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands. We celebrated all over, particularly in the regions concerned, but that Ministry has no funding. In the last Budget, the Ministry was allocated an amount of money that was only enough to pay salaries for staff and office expenditure. The money had nothing to do with the reasons why the Ministry was established in the first place. Therefore, this time, we are very vigilant in"
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