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    "content": "Constitution and the law and shall not be subject to the control or direction of any person or authority, including the Legislature; REITERATES the critical role of constitutional Commissions in our democracy and further reiterates that such Commissions are, in terms of Article 249 of the Constitution, independent and are not subject to the direction or control of any person or authority, including the Legislature; CALLS UPON all constitutional organs and institutions to execute their respective constitutional mandates in utmost good faith and without vendetta, ill- will or bias and in accordance with the national values and principles set out in Article 10 of the Constitution, while observing Article 259(1) of the Constitution; FURTHER CALLS UPON all organs and institutions, the National Assembly in particular, and the people of Kenya at large, to abide by the Constitution and by its values and principles and to always respect, uphold and defend the Constitution; AND resolves to establish a Select Committee to inquire into these matters within three months and to recommend to the Senate such constitutional, legal or institutional changes that it may consider appropriate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we passed our new Constitution in 2010 and the people of Kenya consciously agreed that the old order must give way to the new order. In that new order, we agreed that the old order that believed in absolute power and lorded power upon other citizens of this Republic and upon other institutions must give way to a new institutional order that requires servant leadership. That requires that, as Chapter Six of the Constitution says, that we will not be lords over the people of Kenya and their institutions but be servants to them. When we did so, the people of Kenya also agreed that the governance of this nation shall not be done at the centre; that there shall be institutions of accountability in this country. We, therefore, agreed that we will have a devolved system of Government and it does not mean counties. It is larger than counties. Counties provide one of the avenues of ensuring that devolution occurs."
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