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    "id": 662312,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "I have alluded to the fact that by debating this Bill, we are inadvertently admitting the diminishing role of Parliament. My good friend, Hon. Chrisantus Wamalwa brought a Motion to this House which was passed. From what I know because I happen to have been in this House for nine years, a Motion passed by Parliament is a resolution of the House. A resolution of the House is a directive to the Executive to execute that resolution. What then do we make of the constitutional provisions which are very clear that Parliament manifests the diversity of the nation, represents the will of the people and exercises their sovereignty? If we are the representatives of the people, what we pronounce ourselves on in this House has to be considered as the will of the people of Kenya. The same Constitution is very clear that the National Assembly deliberates and resolves issues of concern to the people and that means that a resolution of this House is a resolution on a matter which is of concern to the people of Kenya. I find it quite contradictory that a Motion is before this House which was passed instead of the Cabinet Secretary concerned coming back to us with regulations on how to implement that Motion, we are now being forced to take the longer route of bringing a Bill to this House to effect what this House had clearly pronounced itself on. Having said that, we have to go this way anyway because whether we like it or not, schools are being ranked. It is not right to rank a small day school in Rarieda with Alliance High School. The fact that we are now coming up with regulations which are going to help us rank schools in different categories is good. Ranking will help us to know where we are lagging The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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