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    "id": 505935,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 158,
        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
        "slug": "ekwee-ethuro"
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    "content": " Hon. Senators, the Petition shall be committed to the Standing Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget pursuant to Standing Order No.227. If you look at that Standing Order, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, you will recall it is referring to a Standing Committee. That is why we cannot put it to your Committee although there are issues that are quite applicable in your case as well. However, they will come to you in the normal way through the report of the Auditor-General. For now, Petitions are committed to Standing Committees. The relevant one is the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. On the other matters that Senators raised, especially yourself and Sen. Musila, I want to make it abundantly very clear that as far as I know, there is nothing stopping the Senate from summoning governors. In fact, what exists is that in the Kerugoya case, when the first attempt of trying to gag this House was brought before Judge Mumbi in Nairobi, she referred the matter to the Chief Justice, the President of the Supreme Court to establish a three-judge bench. The matter was referred to a three-judge bench in Kerugoya. The Kerugoya High Court, of a three-judge bench, where we were not even represented gave the following orders. It says in part two as follows:- “The Senate can summon governors, Members of the county executive committees and other officers.” That is a judicial determination. What the Council of Governors has done is try to go to the Court of Appeal to try to review that. Those are processes that are ongoing. As far as I am concerned, and I think I had occasion to tell you last time, nobody can injunct Parliament. Parliament must proceed. We will do our part, keep summoning them. We will keep a file of those summons and somebody else, including the voters, will know who obeys the law and who does not."
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