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    "id": 384810,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for the guidance you have given us with regard to this very important Bill. You will appreciate that county governments have to function. I am happy that you have indicated that we can go ahead, that it will not be prejudicial to the proceedings of the Supreme Court. I also want to support your arguments that the sooner the Supreme Court resolves this matter, the better. Otherwise, we will have a situation where there will be a constitutional crisis. Personally, I am worried, if, from what you have said, the National Assembly goes ahead and makes laws and forwards those laws to the President and he assents to them the same way that he did with the Division of Revenue Bill, 2013; this House also goes ahead and drafts its own laws and sends them, again, to the President; we will have a crisis because it would mean that the Constitution would have been completely brushed aside. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate you for taking the effort to write to the Speaker of the National Assembly seeking his immediate response to these matters. It is important that, we, as a House, also take up this matter seriously. It is not a matter about the County Allocation of Revenue Bill, it is about the essence of making laws in a bicameral dispensation that we now have. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support your ruling."
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