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    "id": 463502,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/463502/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "before so many committees and in the process so many other members of the Executive are aping him. If we were to go like this and this is directly in contradiction to what you have said, it is wrong. I am aware and alive to the provisions of Articles 94, 95 as read with Article 125 of the Constitution, taking into account the provisions of Standing Order No.191 and Section 6 of the Powers and Privileges Act. Hon. Speaker, notwithstanding all these, I stand here to seek your guidance because if this remains as an official document within the archives of the 11th Parliament, we will have gone down in history as negating the gains that we have made since 1998 when we removed Parliament from the strong ambit of the Executive, when everything was decided elsewhere and Parliament was just used as a conveyor belt. I am sure this is not where we want to appear or to be placed as the 11th Parliament. Hon. Speaker, we are in a presidential system where the work of Parliament is being discharged at the committee level and the Attorney General, being a very important player in the democratic management of the affairs of the Republic of Kenya, setting such a precedent, in my opinion, is an affront to the rule of law and against our own existence as the Legislature. It is an affront against the leadership of the institution of Parliament. It is because of this that I said we needed to get the considered guidance of the Speaker so that Members of Parliament and in particular the leadership of committees know that, indeed, what the AG has done is not only unconstitutional, unprocedural but it is also something that is deliberately tailor-made to make sure that committees do not work and by extension the 11th Parliament fails. Hon. Speaker, I stand to seek your guidance. Thank you and I wish to table this letter."
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