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    "id": 659402,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "related Bills will be considered and given priority within the stipulated time when we come back. We will also consider in the Committee of the whole House, the Controller of Budget Bill, 2015 and of course the Miscellaneous Fees and Levies Bill, 2015. I want to thank Members for rising to the occasion in making sure that legislative work is given priority as a key function of the National Assembly. I also want to thank the leadership of both sides of the House and indeed, the Members for their invaluable work. I want to thank the Speaker, Clerk, the various clerks of committees, the Serjeant-At- Arms Office, all members of staff who work in the Administration and Finance Department and all those who provide services to the National Assembly by making sure that the legislative function and the oversight function of Members of Parliament is fulfilled. Finally, I will not sit down until I have my take on what is happening. Currently, with regard to the reconstitution or the clamour for a new Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), I want to go on record in the HANSARD that nobody, including the President has the power to reconstitute and bring in a new IEBC without following the due process of law. We passed a Constitution and even our foreign friends said it yesterday. If you want to do anything, you must do it within the powers provided in the Constitution. Finally, if you allow me one more minute there is talk that you can use Article 1(1) of the Constitution to behave the way you want. You cannot read that Article in isolation. That Article goes further to say that the people will exercise their authority through the following organs: The Legislature, Judiciary and the Executive. With the exception of the Judiciary, the Executive and the Legislature get their mandate from the people. The President who is the head of the Executive and his deputy get their mandate from the people. The Legislature which is made up of 349 Members of Parliament and our colleagues in the Senate get their mandate from the people. Who are these people who are now saying that Hon. Benjamin Langat of Ainamoi will not speak for them and that they will use Article 1(1) of the Constitution? The people of Garissa Township do not want to use Article 1(1) of the Constitution. They brought me to Parliament to make sure I represent them, legislate and do oversight. The people of Garissa Township have elected their leaders. I thank all Members and wish them well. We have passed the names of nominees to 252 Constituencies Development Fund Committees. I expect the Chair to gazette those names tomorrow, the day after or on Monday. You need to walk to the Office of the Attorney-General, and I am ready to walk with you, to gazette those names so that we can use our Constituencies Development Fund for the benefit of our people. I do not know who these people going to court are. Is it because we denied some people some money? I want to go on record that the mileage we get is used for monitoring and evaluation. If you give money to another group for monitoring and evaluation then we must also get that money. We should not equate leadership with resources. Leadership is about representation and legislation. I beg to move. The Motion for Adjournment has no one to second it. There is no procedure to second it. It is the discretion of the Speaker to give a chance to the next person to contribute."
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