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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to stand and contribute to this very important Constitutional Amendment Bill No.2 of 2015. At the outset, I want to support this constitutional amendment Bill and thank Hon. Peter Kaluma for having put a lot of effort and coming up with this good Bill. I want to disagree with the Chair of ODM because I think separation of power is quite important and the people of Kenya did not say that the Executive, Legislature or Judiciary should be above each other but rather should check on each other. When you look at this Bill in the amendment which has been brought especially on the separation of powers, we have had problems when Bills are before the House or when Reports are before Committees. You may recall the case of Embu when the Governor was being impeached; the debate was within the Country Assembly and when it moved to the Senate, the Governor rushed to the court to stop the process. This amendment is timely because it stops individuals who do not want a certain arm of Government to subject them to certain levels of criticism or to find out how much they have violated the Constitution. This is because if an individual is before the National Assembly, the Senate or County Assembly, and his matter is being debated what will stop that individual from rushing to court to say that this process should be stopped. I think it is a law like this amendment that has been brought. That way it allows due process to be followed and above all we are also 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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