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    "id": 571527,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for your ruling and for not failing at every instance to express the position of your Chair and the Senate. What you have said is good enough for purposes of record. It could have been worse if events like these occurred and there was no record to show that there was concern by the Senate. It came through the question raised by the Senator for Kakamega, more importantly, by the Chair. One of the foundational principles of this Constitution is the rule of law. In fact, Article 2(2) states:- “No person may claim or exercise State authority except as authorised under this Constitution.” I am getting worried. When things started going wrong after 1963, it was through what, probably, then were little violations of this or that law. However, taken in aggregate, they developed into a situation where people had no faith in the law and the constitutional governance of the land. Your ruling in itself may not go very far because you have even gone to the courts. However, I would ask the Senator for Kakamega to bring a Motion before this House so that we can discuss this matter substantially, express ourselves on it and urge everybody as a Senator, irrespective of whether he or she is from the CORD or Jubilee coalition. There are those in CORD who sometimes transgress the law and the Constitution. If we can express ourselves as a House and join you in the ruling that you have given, as a matter of record, we would be good enough. More importantly, the beginning of bad governance starts with the Executive. That is why in the chapter dealing with the Executive, the President is required to obey, defend and protect the Constitution. That is a matter which is clearly geared towards making sure that governance flows from the Constitution."
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