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    "content": "it was abrogated. The Senate was sent home. The Regional Assemblies were scuttled. We got into a unitary centralist Government. Of course, we ended up with an imperial presidency. That is what we do not want today! We do not want these decrees. We do not want these pronouncements. This is why we are really looking for a Constitution in which we can get ourselves a good fundamental law, which is agreeable to all Kenyans. We need a fundamental law that considers equity, respects the rights of other people and provides freedom and justice for everybody. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we cannot go on being ordered as Parliament. The Government needs to agree on this issue. I may not be a lawyer, but what is the “Government” now and not that of yesterday? The Government now are the two Principals. That is what I consider the Government to be. Not one of them can give orders to Parliament or to anybody or say this should be done. There has to be consensus or considered opinion by both of them. This one is not. You can see where the weakness is. We must now understand that an imperial President is not ruling us. A Principal who must work clearly with the other Principal to give us a lot of time to be able to work, is ruling us! Mr. Speaker, Sir, this issue of saying that somebody is the Head of State and Government and the other Principal supervises the Government and so on--- They must agree. That is the problem that we are having now. It is very difficult for people to go back to the old days of the rule of men and not law. That is where we are now. We have people who are ruling us without knowing that we are in trouble. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I still want this agreement to be reached by these two Principals, because if they do not do so, then they will put us in the kind of confusion that we are in now. We must push our two Principals, probably with the mediation of Mr. Speaker, so that we can get this little matter of the Leader of Government Business sorted out. I agree with hon. Imanyara that this is Parliament. We are a separate institution. There is the Executive and the Judiciary. Normally, although they are supposed to agree and co-ordinate and co-operate, not one of them is supposed to bully and really order the other to do what is right. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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