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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to address this matter. This is a matter which has exercised my mind as a lawyer for some time. I want to request that we remember that ours is a presidential system. Properly speaking, neither of us is in Government nor the Opposition. In fact, there is a good reason as to why the people of Kenya decided it so. There is a good reason as to why His Excellency the President and the Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) no longer sit in the House. The idea is that we will be more liberal and bipartisan on matters which affect the people. As you make your decision, I wanted your mind to be directed to properly characterise for this House what the word ‘reservations’, used in Article 115 of the Constitution, means. I am begging you because I know there are previous Communications on this or related matters. As a lawyer, I know of a judge who kept reviewing his decisions whenever they were not in tandem with the moments. That is Lord Denning. He holds a special place in the history of law as one of the best judges the entire world continues to celebrate. What are ‘reservations’? That is number one. Do they enable the President, in the exercise of that mandate, to come up with whole provisions unconnected to what is already in the Bill referred to him for assent? In the context of the Bills we are talking about, you will see what was introduced through the power donated to the President The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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