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    "id": 755768,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 24 (6), the Thanks of the Senate be recorded for the exposition of public policy contained in the Address of the President during the Opening of the 12th Parliament delivered on Tuesday, 12th September, 2017. Mr. Speaker, Sir, first of all, I would like to go back to my earlier comment that as a House, we have business to do. The Standing Order and the Constitution provides that the President may preside over the official opening of Parliament as he did yesterday. If you listened carefully when the President was speaking to the country yesterday, he spoke as the Head of State. It is important to be reminded that the people of Kenya via the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 agreed that they would have a system of Government or a constitutional order that in the first place recognizes the supremacy of the almighty God and the sovereignty of the people of Kenya. Article (1) which has been quoted largely and misquoted to suit people’s personal interests at any given time provides that although the sovereign power belongs to the people of Kenya as provided in Article (1), in subsection (2), the people may exercise their sovereign power either directly or through their democratically elected representatives. This is a very important statement; that there are two important entities that must be recognized; the first is the people. The Constitution was enacted because we believed that the people are supreme. It is the people who donate their powers to other entities. It is the people who exercise their sovereign power directly. There is no better way for people to exercise their sovereign power directly than by voting for leaders that they want. That is why the in the second part of Article (1) (2), there is a recognition of the sovereign power of the people and that the people can exercise the power directly or through their democratically elected representatives."
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