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    "content": "effect. They can proceed with it and take the Bill wherever they want. They can take it for the President to sign but it will be an illegal Bill. I know the people of Kenya will stand with the Senate and the Constitution. It is a simple and straightforward matter. I see nothing partisan about this because if the opposition was so sympathetic to the Constitution on this matter, by now they should even be going to court or they should have called a Parliamentary Group (PG) meeting and instructed their Members in the “Lower House” to behave themselves. However, some of the most harsh, nasty and crude saboteurs of the Constitution on this matter are actually from the minority side. I am not trying exempt the majority side. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg Members to retain sobriety and engage with this matter as we have done before. As far as I am concerned, from where I stand, the so- called Appropriation Bill and the thinking that that Appropriation Bill is being prepared on the assumption that the Senate will approve the mediation report, are illegal because the Constitution does not anticipate the outcome that the two Houses will agree and the mediation report will be approved. Without belabouring the point, the Constitution and the Judiciary which interprets our laws and the people of Kenya are on the side of the Senate. So, if a crisis has been generated by the “Lower House” through this uncouth behaviour, so be it. However, the Senate cannot relent or bend the procedures and protocols that must be followed to make the law and to make sure that the Budget and the resources of this country are allocated between the two levels of Government. That cannot be said of this Senate; that we will bend the law to please anyone. It is a straightforward matter. This House can even call a Special Sitting once that illegal process which is ongoing there materializes and we take a position. You can count on the Senate Majority Leader to lead from the front."
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