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    "id": 578814,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Bill. This Bill addresses the issue of this Parliament being an institution respected and expected to deliver services to Kenyans, or being made a laughing stock. Like my colleague has just said, at one time we had a committee dealing the murder of the late Hon. (Dr.) Ouko. That committee made certain decisions. Those decisions were made known to the public within Parliament precincts, and yet that Chairman of that Committee has been committed to pay Kshs10 million. The Chairman of that Committee has been committed to pay Kshs10 million for having made a statement arising from a decision of the Committee he chaired. How long are we going to be under the ambit of the Judiciary, that they must gag us and block us from delivering our services to represent, oversee and legislate? In the hierarchy of positions in Kenya, the Legislature is second to the Executive. If we did not have a President and Deputy President, the Speaker of the National Assembly would be the President of this country. That is how Kenyans regard this Legislature. Hon. Kaluma has brought this Bill at the right time and it is one which we must all support 100 per cent so that we can send a message to the Judiciary that Parliament is alive, awake and must protect its mandate. The Constitution gives us a mandate which we must 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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