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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, along those lines, I think we would like to be informed what steps have been taken to implement that very important advisory opinion that we received from the Supreme Court of Kenya. It was a landmark decision, it was very clear in its terms on the procedures that must be followed on issues of legislation; on the roles of the Senate and the National Assembly. I would have thought that immediately after the ruling was given, then steps should have been taken to see how to implement that ruling in future and if those steps have not been followed in the past, how to rectify what was not followed in the past. I must say I was a bit surprised – I do not know whether it was reported correctly – when the Speaker of the National Assembly is reported to have said that that ruling is of no consequence whatsoever which really flies in the face of what the rule of law is all about and that caused me a lot of worry; that here is the first major ruling from the Supreme Court of Kenya on the interpretation of the Constitution on a very important issue and here is somebody saying that that ruling is of no consequence whatsoever. Hence my rising up and asking you what steps have been taken to ensure that that the advisory opinion which was given is strictly being followed. If that is so, then, obviously, the regulations which we are talking about are matters which this House must be concerned with because regulations are part of the law of the land. It is part of legislation."
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