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    "id": 276097,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Listening to the argument of the Minister, is he in order to mislead this House that if legislation is in process, it is equal to a legislation concluded? If the Bill has been introduced to this House and it has not been passed into an Act of Parliament, it remains a Bill. That legislation has not been completed. You have ruled before that this House as it is today, the legislation involves Parliament and the President. Until the President assents, the legislation is not complete. I wonder what is so different for the Government to either seek for extension of time or wait for the County Government Bill to be properly enacted into law through the Presidential assent and then bring this Bill with this provision inside. But in the absence of those two alternatives, if today we pass this Bill with that clause in it, it means we are enacting a legislation specified in the Constitution which should have been done in 18 months. We are doing it outside the period without even bothering to extend time as it is provided by the Constitution. The Minister should remember that the President is not above the law. He is not above the Constitution. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and we should respect it. I plead with you that you make a ruling by stopping debate on this Bill."
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