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    "content": "That it is in our opinion and very carefully arrived at conclusion that the organs of the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive should meet under a neutral chairmanship because you cannot ask either the Speaker or the Chief Justice or the President to chair that meeting because they are the organs which are not working properly constitutionally. However, we may have to find a chairperson who is completely neutral from these three organs to sit us down and make sure that we understand the Constitution. Therefore, we shall proceed this way not to abrogate the Constitution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was going to propose that we should have a renowned judge from the Commonwealth who has vast knowledge on constitutional matters to be the chairman of that meeting so that we can finally interpret the Constitution properly. This is because these three organs of the Government are not working properly; they are not abiding by the separation of powers. A time has come that we need another Kofi Anan to come in and re-engineer the implementation of the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya, so that we do not get ourselves involved in this quagmire time and time again. A very important institution has been set up called the Senate. It looks as if in the operations of the Kenyan Government, the Senate is not being given room to implement its functions as set out in this Constitution. Nobody can convince me that the Senate is failing because it does not have teeth. The Senate has teeth. I have seen the Senate using its teeth, chewing properly and not chewing the cud as cows do. So, this is the thing that should be focused on. Let us get another Kofi Anan or a judge from the Commonwealth to sit with the leadership of the three arms of Government and make a decision on the issue of separation of powers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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