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"speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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"content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I totally agree with hon. Ngâongo. This is an issue that I picked this morning with the Cabinet Secretary for the Treasury and the Leader of the Majority Party in the Senate. When this august House disposed of the Division of Revenue Bill that was mandated to give the allocation between the national Government and county governments, that Bill was supposed to go for assent by the President. That was the procedure and they are consulting. But I want you to rule further because there is a lot of talk in the media of a struggle between the Senate and the National Assembly. I request you to give a fundamental ruling based on the Constitution. If you look at Article 93 of the Constitution, the establishment of a Parliament, it does not talk about a lower or upper house. That is Chapter 18 of the Constitution on the Legislature. It says:- â(1) There is established a Parliament of Kenya, which shall consist of the National Assembly and the Senate. (2) The National Assembly and the Senate shall perform their respective functions in accordance with this Constitutionâ. Our colleagues in the Senate must know that our functions and their functions are anchored in the Constitution. So, you cannot create an upper and lower house from the"
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