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    "id": 355495,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, we have discussed issues of rules, traditions and practices. But this House proceeds, first and foremost, on the Constitution. The Constitution says: “This Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic and binds all persons and all State organs at both levels of Government.” In Subsection 4 it says: “Any law, including customary law, that is inconsistence with this Constitution, is void to the extent of the its inconsistency and any act or omission in contravention of this Constitution is invalid. So, even though I appreciate that we have rules of this House; even though I appreciate that there are statutes and traditions, I start from the constitutional principles that this House must follow. The national values that hon. Speaker is so aware because you were in the Committee at Bomas that drafted the national values--- One of them is good governance, integrity, transparency and accountability. Accountability cannot be accountability – and colleagues would want to be--- Okay. Accountability cannot be accountability if the minority is unable to give oversight role to the Government. Even if the Standing Orders say something to the contrary; even if the Standing Orders say that we will not have the"
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