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    "id": 72566,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "8 Wednesday, 8th December, 2010(P) Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Order, Member for Ikolomani! Just relax! I will give you time to be able to satisfy me as to how you obtained it. With respect to the point of order raised by the Member for Gichugu, I must admit that it has cost me considerable agony. Even before I made the Communication as I have this afternoon, I juggled with that and wondered whether or not I can actually enforce the provisions of the Constitution as the Speaker of the National Assembly. At the end of the day, I determined that, that prerogative rests with some other organ rather than the Office of the Speaker or for that matter, the Legislature. This is because Section 22 which I referred to and read out is, in fact, clear on what should happen if a right under Chapter 4 of the Constitution is infringed. Section 23 then provides for enforcement of a right. Again, I read out Section 23 of the Constitution and in my considered opinion, I am satisfied that I have given the correct interpretation to both Sections 22 and 23 of the Constitution. I have gone further in the concluding paragraph of my Communication to assert that there may be other remedies available to the House away from the courts. But for the Speaker to compel the Minister to table that report, in the light of the law that I have pronounced myself on, I am afraid that, that would be my Communication."
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