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    "id": 66286,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I wish to commend the Minister for the work he has done. It is not an easy job making preparations for these Bills. There are quiet a myriad of Bills, which fall under his docket. I think more than any other Minister, the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs is burdened with the responsibility of piloting many Bills in this House. In a matter of months, we have had several Bills, including these two. But since the promulgation of the Constitution, this Bill could be the second or third. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you would notice that for very good reasons, under the Constitution of Kenya, the chapters dealing with the Executive have been suspended nearly in their entirety. The Chapter dealing with the legislature, the provisions that relate to the legislature, not in their entirety, but most of those provisions, have been suspended. This National Assembly is now performing the functions of the National Assembly and the Senate as contemplated in the Constitution. There are other matter that may arise that relate either to the Senate or the National Assembly as contemplated under the Constitution that this House will be required to deal with but we have not been forced to go back to the electorate. We have continued the tenure under the old Constitution until another Parliament will be elected on the basis of the Constitution that we promulgated. Similarly, the Executive continues to function in terms of the former Constitution, which have the National Accord entrenched in it. However, when it comes to the Judiciary, the Constitution requires of us to reform the Judiciary. Why the Judiciary? Because over the years, it has been felt that if we had an independent and impartial Judiciary, probably, we would never have got to where we got to the extent that we required a new Constitution. Even under the old Constitution, I believe in the areas of Bill of Rights, including the freedom of association, freedom of expression, all those rights, if we had a strong, independent and impartial Judiciary, we would not have gone so low. So this Bill that has been placed before the House requires the entire Judiciary to be reformed in one way or another. I think this is good for the country. One of the provisions that excite me about the Constitution says that the judicial authority of the Republic of Kenya is a delegated authority. It is an authority that is derived from the people of Kenya and delegated to the Judiciary as contemplated under the Constitution and as reformed under the many Bills that we will enact in implementing the Constitution."
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