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    "id": 249494,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/249494/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 197,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I do not know why the Attorney- General wants us to remove the name of the President from this law. Chapter 423 of the Constitutional Offices (Remuneration) Act, Cap.423, provides as follows:- \"The holders of the offices specified in the First Column of the Schedule shall be paid such allowances as may be determined, from time to time, by the President.\" Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the Attorney-General now wants us to remove the name of the President and leave this function to be exercised by an amorphous authority within the Office of the President, so that anybody within the Office of the President can, actually, dictate the allowances that holders of Constitutional Offices are going to be paid. That is wrong! Why does the Attorney-General feel that the President can be left out, yet Cap.423 gives the President the leeway and authority to determine the allowances to be paid to holders of Constitutional Offices? We want our President to work as was mandated by the people of Kenya and we cannot just allow that to be left to the Office of the President. The Office of the President even means a messenger can come and give any allowance to any person within the constitutional offices. So, I September 12, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3879 beg to move that the name of the President must be there as proposed in the amendment."
}