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    "id": 635131,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "I thought I would be more excited to go to Meru than him because of the political reasons that the Sen. Hassan knows. In this Constitution, if you look at the hierarchy of institutions and State organs, it is the people first, Parliament, Executive and then the Judiciary. We should not forget the order in which State organs are set up in the Constitution is not by accident. That order is very deliberate. In the old Constitution, the order was the Executive, the Judiciary and then, finally, Parliament. However, this was changed totally. It is not only in the provision of Article 1, but if you go through the Constitution, Parliament always comes first. Madam Temporary Speaker, what I would urge the Speaker of the Senate is that when the Senate is invited as an institution or as a State organ, it should confer with the leadership of the House. This is because the Chairperson should not make a decision without consulting the leadership. This meeting is out of consultation by the CoGs. They sat and decided to hold this meeting in Meru. In this one, the Speaker has ordered the Senator for Bomet to go to Meru. I urge him that before he gets excited about it, he needs to find out first. A lot of times, you will realise that \"meetings are made before they are held\". Decisions are made before meetings are held. He may be walking in a place like Kisumu--- when I saw the banners about the conference that was held there, I decided not to appear there because I knew I did not belong there. The leadership of the side opposite side may not agree with me. I am directing this to the Senate Majority Leader, Sen. (Prof) Kindiki) because he is the one who can protect this House since he has a nexus with the Executive. This idea of the Speakers of the National Assembly and the Senate taking Bills to be assented to by the President and they stand as the President sits, is a mockery of democracy. Even in a monarchy, it does not happen that way. These two institutions are co-equal in the legislation process. By that fact, we are undermining the Parliament. We should think through this properly so that in the competition for power and authority, we should never undermine the authority of Parliament, irrespective of the parties we belong to. Madam Temporary Speaker, I urge the Speaker to summon Sen. (Prof.) Lesan and put a caveat so that he does not go to Meru until further consultations about the process are carried out with the leadership of the House."
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