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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "the Fourth Schedule, they would appreciate that the Mining Bill does not fall within their jurisdiction. I have just been looking at Part 2 of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution. It is not sufficient for them to just go to Mombasa and mislead the media that the Mining Bill belongs to them. They have not quoted any part of the Constitution to prove that claim. Kenyans have not given them that mandate. The Senators have a mistaken belief that we are in a vertical relationship with them. Our relationship with the Senate is horizontal. So, the mistaken belief that there is something called “higher House” and “lower House” does not exist in the Constitution. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I read somewhere where they have said that they have run out of patience, and I thought they should have said that they have run out of business and ideas. It cannot be that they have run out of patience with people who have no problem with them. There is nothing to be patient about us. We are doing what we are expected to do under the Constitution. Secondly, the mismanagement on the part of the Senate cannot be attributed to the National Assembly. We cannot accept. If they have mismanaged their relationship with the Executive, the county assemblies and the governors, that cannot be blamed on the National Assembly. Neither would we wish that to be imported nor exported to us. We are neither exporters nor importers of their mismanagement. So, let it be known to the Senate that we are steadfast in following the Constitution, and that we have not erred in any way. The fact that you are a lawyer does not make your position legal, if you just stand in front of television cameras and make claims without quoting any part of Constitution. Let them point the exact parts of the Constitution that have been breached. Thirdly, nobody should be denied a chance to go to court. It is their right to go to court and ventilate the matter there. In any event, they are fighting the courts. I do not know why they are going there. They should save their breath and time and deal with us here because at least we have some time for them. The courts have no time for them. So, they should restrict their bad habits to Parliament; they should not take them to the courts. Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker."
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