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    "id": 355412,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/355412/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. Mine is a warning. I am warning this august House that unless we stand up and defend this institution--- If we let this institution be destroyed then Kenya will become a banana republic. If we do not defend and protect the Constitution of Kenya, will we have done our job? The Constitution of Kenya was approved by Kenyans after it had gone through this Parliament. It can only be amended through this Parliament. Hon. Speaker, Sir, these busy bodies who are lying idle in town--- We have never asked them how they get their funding. We have never asked them to tell Kenyans what programmes they undertake. If this House cedes its right to be independent, to represent the people of Kenya, to oversee other activities of the other arms of Government, then there will be no need to have a Parliament in this country. That Serem Commission is incompetent to the extreme. They are trying to undo what was done by eminent Kenyans. Who in that commission is of the calibre of retired Chief Justice Cockar? Who in that commission is of the caliber of the retired politician, Munyua Waiyaki? Who in that commission is of the calibre of the late Dennis Akumu, the Pan Africanist? Who in that commission is of the calibre of justice Akiwumi? I thought we drew from the report of those eminent Kenyans. In fact, the Act setting up these salaries commission states in Section 12 that they shall take into consideration any reports done by other commissions. It is written that “they shall” and not that “they may”. They have not done that. They are contradicting the law left, right and centre; for that purpose they should be removed, so that we can have competent people who can do evaluation of our work and that of other agencies of Government and set salaries; we accept that."
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