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    "id": 596364,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "October 29, 2015 SENATE DEBATES 21 The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " I am sorry, Mr. Chairman, Sir, I withdraw that word. However, I urge you to give serious consideration to this matter. As Sen. Orengo, Sen. G.G. Kariuki and other older Members here can tell us, this Parliament has walked through valleys and hills in this country to get where it is. The Clerk of Parliament was always a junior officer from the Office of the President until the amendments came. This Parliament now enjoys an equal authority, if not superior authority, to the Executive and the Judiciary. That is why it is Parliament that approves the appointment of the head of the Judiciary and it can impeach the head of the Executive. Nobody in the other Arms of Government can impeach Parliament. I want to submit as I end, that if we take any partisan position or a position of political convenience, arguing against what is on the Floor now, has nothing to do with who is the President. It has everything to do with what is right for the country and for the future. I want us to take a non-partisan position on this. I want us to secure the institution of Parliament from encroachment by other arms of government."
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