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    "id": 733055,
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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": "In Mombasa, the Chief Justice came with clean hands. He addressed the top leadership, under your leadership, in good faith. We agreed on many things and that is why Hon. Chepkong’a is moving the Bill he asked us to fast-track. I do not think we are interested anymore with that Bill. I want to tell Hon. Chepkong’a to go and talk to the owners of that Bill to come here and pass that Bill. For us here, it is not--- That ruling is certainly a breach of the agreed position and in this regard I seek your clarification on how this House should move forward. As I conclude, Members of this House will agree with me that there is need for this House to be guided on the issues I have raised. The need to safeguard and promote the oversight role of this House to enquire on the manner in which State officers and State organs exercise their functions is a matter that need not be overemphasized. My colleagues were demonstrating from morning to evening for the removal of Issack Hassan. When he finally appeared before the Joint Select Committee together with his team, no iota of evidence was provided. However, today, because the Auditor-General comes from your community, you want to blind yourselves even from the proceedings. It is for this House to decide, as the Hon. Speaker said. I want to tell the Auditor-General, a man I respect, that you do not need a lot of roadblocks. You can put roadblocks but the truth shall come out. If there are issues that concern your office, this House will deal with them through the relevant Committee. The Judge is trying to throw away and curtail the process of Parliament. Hon. Speaker, you need to give direction. If you do not do that, a judge will annul the calendar of this House. The calendar of this House is provided for in our laws. We have come from a long history where Parliament was an appendix of Harambee House and it was controlled from State House. I want to go on record that we are not ready to be a department of the Judiciary. Hon. Keynan, one of the active Members of the Public Investments Committee (PIC), will deal with you based on the evidence provided and if he feels you should go through a certain route, the House will vote. Hon. Kaimenyi survived by 17 votes and Hon. Monica Juma did not survive. We want you to protect the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, Hon. Langat from those who are saying he is behaving in a certain way. Those are sideshows. The Chair is going to deal with evidence as provided. The Committee will provide a report either for rejection or adoption which this House will decide. In your ruling, you must also remind Members that they cannot mete mob justice on committees to save their next of kin who works for the people of Kenya. They took an oath and must defend it. My next of kin was chased through many demonstrations. Your next of kin is lucky since he is being given an opportunity to go through the due process of law. I wish Ahmed Issack Hassan was given the due process of law when he was hounded out of office."
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