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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is Standing Order No.47(3)(b). It is says:- “is contrary to the Constitution, without expressly proposing appropriate amendment of the Constitution; or.” I also served in the Budget Committee by virtue of being a chair of another Committee. We have given notice to the Government that there is a new kid in town. That new kid is not Prof. James ole Kiyiapi who has just resigned to vie for the presidency - and I urge all other interested civil servants to do so. The new kid in town is the Kenyan Constitution, 2010, which is very clear in terms of the national values. Every organ of the State and principally the Executive has even a better and greater responsibility than any other organ, apart from this institution known as Parliament and the Judiciary, to make sure it is truly compliant. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the point that Mr. Mbadi has raised is the point we are saying; that if you look at what we did as a Parliament when it came to the Land Bills, you will realise that we actually invoked that particular arrangement. This is because we want to be compliant. In fact, the overriding issues - even the preamble and Article 2 of the Constitution, is what you call constitutionalism and the rule of law. If this House will allow the Executive to be getting away with things on the basis of experimentation--- Mr. Githae must realise that the 100 days of his honeymoon are over. In any case, it was a request which we never granted. Fundamentally, the Constitution is more binding than a wish list or a request. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, if you look further, Cap.204 of this Constitution has said in terms of the Equalization Fund that it must be given a period of 20 years. Already this Government, in its culture of impunity and in its total disregard of the new order of things in this country, has already eaten into two years of that particular fund and we will be called upon as a House to be able to revisit that matter at the end of that period just because the Executive again has eaten into those years; two out of 20 years. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can go on and on but the most important thing on which we want you to rule is that this is a thoroughly weighty matter. What is being proposed by the Deputy Leader of Government Business is an argument. How do you enact a Bill into law? There are two major players in the process of making Bills into laws. The Bill assumes the force of the law when it is enacted. That is only when the President has assented to the Bill. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is so fundamental and basic that the Executive as usual does not seem to appreciate when the final authority of assent of Bills is not in this House. It is the appointing authority. So, we must make it abundantly clear to them that"
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