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    "id": 221351,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Maore",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maoka Maore",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue I am raising is that when Idd Amin was inconvenienced by lack of money, he told the Minister for Finance to go and print it. The inflation that followed was worse. Today, we have a similar problem in terms of decision- making. We have the summit of the three Heads of State passing a resolution that is supposed to address an inconvenience they have found in court. Instead of abiding by the court ruling and May 16, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1373 respecting the court, they go ahead and amend the Treaty. That is the amendment we are saying that Parliament needs to have a say in effecting. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenya is actually, increasingly on the way to destroying the East African Community. I say so because, if we have a community that we want to nurture and be senior members of, we should not do the kind of things that Kenya is trying to do. It is a big privilege for us to have two judges out of the judges of the East African Court of Justice. When they go and make a ruling, you do not tell the whole world that at the time they were making that ruling, they had something pending in Kenya. We should have done these things between 2003 and 2006. Why do them in 2007? So, it is because of this kind of behaviour that one cannot trust the entity called \"Government\". The State is all of us, but the Government is these people. So, in the separation of the two, when we have something laid on the Table of the House, the House can seize what has been laid on the Table and take some action on it. It is wrong for somebody to mistake Parliament for a cemetery, where you go and lay a dead body there, and it is supposed to remain there for eternity or until the day of resurrection. Parliament is different. That is why Mr. Cheboi, in moving this Motion, says that the sole legislative arm of the Government of Kenya is to participate in this matter. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with the Minister totally that there is nothing constitutional in this matter. It has been by tradition and convention. The Vienna Convention and the East African Community Treaty are different. The East African Community Treaty is a creation of the three member States of East Africa, and we should be able to participate in amending the Treaty, as the three arms of the Governments. Talking about the Bomas Draft, everyone knows---"
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