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    "id": 579986,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/579986/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill by Hon. Keynan, which is very timely. Article 1 of the Constitution delegates the sovereign power to the three arms of the Government, namely, the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. If you check on the legislation to do with the Judiciary, when a judge discharges a ruling, he is not doing so by himself, but is exercising the sovereign power given by the people of Kenya. This Constitution has not given lesser powers to any of the three arms of the Government. It has given roles to the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. We want to see a Member of Parliament debating and discharging his or her role with confidence. The case of Hon. Gor Sungu, which all of us sympathise with - the tribulation he is undergoing because of what he said as a Member of a Committee of this House - is a very good example. Article 125(2) of the Constitution provides that a Committee of Parliament is equal to the High Court when discharging duties."
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