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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": " Hon. Members, this is a matter that I really did not want to talk about. I was equally surprised by what I saw in the media over the weekend. When I made a Communication on Thursday, it was with reference to various matters canvassed by the Senator for Kakamega County, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. One of the issues that my brother, the Speaker of the National Assembly, picked was the Public Audit Bill 2014. I actually said that I was not going to say much except as a matter of fact, because facts are facts; that I was not consulted. I wanted to dismiss it with the contempt it deserves in terms of the newspaper reports because, to me, it was just trash. It was repeated on Monday again. From the front page of The Standard, it found its place on the back page of the Nation . Then I knew, there must be another design to deliberately bring some other conflict between the two Houses. You may wish to recall that, that was not a dialogue or correspondence. It was a monologue from a Speaker of one House. I have a conscience and I am very clear on the things that I say and do. I want to maintain that I was never consulted and I have a letter to confirm that. Secondly, the letter that I received on Friday evening was a good letter, which is supposed to be the source document by the journalists. So, my first instance was that, maybe, the Speaker of the National Assembly has been misquoted, because when you read the letter itself, it confirms that the National Assembly and its leadership in entirety, as Sen. Billow alluded, for some reasons, assume that we participate in their proceedings and their House and Business Committee deliberations. So, they attached minutes. They also confirmed that they presumed that since it is a matter affecting counties, according to the memoranda of objects, it would come to us. However, I have a different experience, even when they say that a matter does not affect counties, sometimes it comes because some amendments were made. Sometimes, there is no desire to bring the Bills here until we ask for them. So, I thought that the issue of concurrence on Article 110(3) is a matter that has been determined with finality. It should have been concluded by the end of the year 2014. There is no amount of provocation that will open that. That will remain. This House has in the past gone to the Supreme Court, we had a resolution that any other Bills before and subsequently – at that time we were at the count of 46 – will meet the same fate. This is a country of governance and with institutions. If one state organ does not appreciate it, there are other state organs that will enforce compliance. So, I am not worried. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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