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    "id": 246042,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/246042/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 208,
        "legal_name": "Sylvester Wakoli Bifwoli",
        "slug": "wakoli-bifwoli"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are talking about six lawyers who were paid a total of Kshs72 million. This amount did not just go to one Gibson Kamau Kuria. It was paid to six lawyers equally, although Mr. Kuria is a Senior Counsel. As to whether I am satisfied with that payment, the Solicitor-General was guided by the Advocates Remuneration Order. These cases were prior to the referendum and they wanted to stop the referendum which was an exercise that had cost this country Kshs10 billion. I instructed the Solicitor-General to act in my absence because I went underground for three weeks and produced what is now popularly known as the \"Wako Draft\". Therefore, the Solicitor-General, as an Accounting Officer, authorised this. The Solicitor-General was properly guided by the Advocates Remuneration Order Regulation 3 which states:- \"Where any business requires and receives exceptional dispatch at the request of the client, special fees can be paid.\" Regulation 5(1) states as follows:- \"In business of exceptional importance or of unusual complexity, an advocate shall be entitled to receive and shall be allowed to receive a special fee.\" If we take into account the subject matter of this suit which can be computed to be Kshs10 billion which the Government had spent on this process and then take into account the percentage that is normally allowed here, they would be claiming Kshs150 million."
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