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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also keenly listened to your ruling. I congratulate you for being consistent on the position and the manner in which this continuously recurring stalemate should be addressed by this House. However, I have one standing concern which we need to look at quite seriously. In a court of law or Parliaments world over, the law is used as reference so many times, even centuries backwards. When a matter is being prosecuted in court, it is almost common and recurring practice that lawyers are required to submit authorities based on previous arguments of law. Parliament is a House of norms, rules, precedence and traditions. My concern is, yes, some of these things, in our time now, we can afford to look at them and decide to bypass them or act in a certain way for current convenience. However, for posterity, how will we justify our existence, especially as the first Senate? This Senate is the pacesetter or a norm setter for all other Senate to come after this. There might have been previous misguided thoughts with some people that this Senate will not last. However, with the enthusiasm that Kenyans have embraced devolution, we can see it is here to stay. The Senate is definitely going to be here. How will the generations to come judge the Speaker of the Senate as he sits today? The records of this House will bear witness that this House thought that, albeit the provisions of the law, it is okay to overlook it, or allow a misapplication of the law. Against the Constitution of this country, this Bill was allowed to pass unchallenged."
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