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    "id": 332324,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr.C. Kilonzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is amazing that the Minister would refer to an Act of Parliament while he knows very well that there is a new Constitution which is very specific. If the Minister can bother to look at Article 35 of the Constitution which is very clear and for his information, it reads as follows:- “Every citizen has the right of access to:- (a) Information held by the State” We are not even talking about who is the Government. This is the National Assembly. We are asking one arm which is the Executive to give information to the other arm which is the Legislature. So, I want you to find the Minister really to have misunderstood the law, although he is a lawyer, by trying to purport that he cannot give information to the National Assembly. Finally, he also needs to know the role of the National Assembly. Article 95(b) states as follows:- “The National Assembly exercises oversight of State organs.” So, when the Minister cannot tell us the evils which are being done by the financial institutions, then how does he expect the National Assembly or the Legislature to oversight?"
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