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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I support this Petition. I want from the outset to say to the nation that hon. Linturi is both within the Constitution and the Standing Orders. The Standing Orders provide that a Member of this House can bring either public or a private petition. Two, what hon. Linturi is doing can be done to any other Commission. So, we have no ulterior motive against the SRC. Anybody or a commission that breaks the fundamental principles of the Constitution--- It is the business of this House to uphold the Constitution and correct wrongs. Article 127 of the Constitution that establishes the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), Subsection (6) gives power to the PSC to, among many other things, set, guide, give and decide on the welfare of Members of Parliament. Hon. Speaker, PSC is going, through its Vice-Chair, to table its Estimates as an independent institution. I am going to table the Estimates, on behalf of the Judiciary, because they are not here. I am also going to table the Estimates of the Executive. That shows the independence of this institution. Hon. Speaker, Sir, a Commission which is a creation of this House cannot purport--- I want Sarah Serem to listen to me and the country. We are not after our salaries. Hon. Linturi is raising a fundamental breach of the Constitution. I am sure the media will listen to me, and we are ready to go for a talk show and tell them how the SRC violated the separation of powers between Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary. Hon. Speaker, Sarah Serem has not touched the salary of the Judiciary, another independent institution. When she was asked, she said that she was undertaking consultation with them. We are asking ourselves: Why did she not undertake consultation with Parliament? We have a Speaker who is the Chair of PSC. This country and the citizenry must come see the reality. On 4th March, 2013, Kenyans went to the polls and elected the 349 men and women into this House. If they are thieves, it is the Kenyan people who are thieves!"
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