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    "id": 368084,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/368084/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I would like to request a Statement from the Leader of Majority Party with respect to a visit by the Chief Justice (CJ) and other State officers to Senegal to meet the President of the United States of America (USA), Mr. Barak Obama, cognisant of the fact that Article 160(1) of the Constitution of Kenya states that in the exercise of judicial authority, the Judiciary shall be subject to only the Constitution and the law, and that it shall not be subject to the control or direction of any other person or authority; and also cognisant of the fact that Kenya is a sovereign Republic, as stated in Article 4(1) of the Constitution. In the Statement, I would like him to clarify the following issues:- (i) whether the CJ will be meeting President Obama in his private or official capacity; (ii) who is funding the visit; (iii) what the agenda of the visit is; (iv) which other State and/or public officers, if any, have also been invited to meet President Obama in either Senegal or Tanzania or wherever; and, (v) given the fact that President Obama has chosen to ignore visiting Kenya due to an ongoing judicial process at the International Criminal Court (ICC) – a position his Government has stated clearly – what bearing the meeting has on the perceived independence and impartiality of the Judiciary on the same matter. Hon. Speaker, Sir, my request under (v) above is based on the fact that there is an ongoing judicial process at the ICC and President Obama has invited the head of our local Judiciary."
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