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    "id": 815125,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/815125/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "I am reading from the Constitution. They participate in law making; they do not enact laws. It is the way Bills are taken for public participation. That is the same way the Senate participates. I am not the one who wrote the Constitution. It is here. Article 96 (2) says that the Senate participates in law making functions of Parliament concerning the counties; not even laws concerning other issues. I am saying this because it has now become too much. They summon anyone under the sun using Article 125 of the Constitution. Article 125 should be used to summon someone according to your functions. You cannot just summon whom you do not have authority over. You have been told expressly in the Constitution that you have no authority over State organs. Their legislative powers have been defined under Article 109 to 113. Specifically, Article 110 has told them that they are supposed to deal with Bills that concern counties. The other day, there was a harambee in Kilifi where funds to translate the Bible into Giriama language were being raised. It is high time we translated the Constitution into our vernacular languages so that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}