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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a sad day for this country and the Constitution. Fortunately, no Government is in power forever and neither are bad manners. There are six clauses that we have made. All of them are unconstitutional. However, that is not my point. We, as a Senate, have allowed ourselves to be used. We have allowed ourselves to be used to rubberstamp decisions that are not constitutional. Our Bills have been rejected at the National Assembly. The CDF law has been passed without our input. We have been forwarded documents from the National Assembly and we have not bothered to interrogate them. Nobody in the Jubilee side thinks they should question a comma in a memorandum of the President. Hon. Moses Kuria appears to be right. Maybe we do not need this Senate. The National Assembly can do this. What is the purpose of sitting here and just voting? What we have done is not any different from what the National Assembly has done. The only wise person here is Sen. Keter who will join the Cabinet. All of us do not need to be here. We actually need to go back to our professions and do something else. There is no reason to sit here and just press buttons when we have a document that tells us that one cannot interfere with an independent office. What is so difficult about seeing something so simple? Some people have told us that they came with a conscience today to vote. What happened to that conscience before? However, the beauty about doing legislation and what we studied in law school about interpretation is, it does not end here. One day somebody will go into the record and ask why we amended Clause 234 or 229, so that the officers of an independent office are subject to another office. They will look at the record and will find that we did not serve as Senators as we should have. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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