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    "content": "talk about the Member for Gatundu South. Let me restrict myself to the Member for Suba North, whose case I feel was not handled properly. In fact, I asked myself whether it is because the Subas are marginalised such that even when they are wronged, no one seems to care. Is it because Millie is a lady and we need not care about her? In future, we want to see impartiality in handling these cases. All cases should be treated the same. I support what the Leader of the Majority Party talked about regarding our affairs. The reason why we enacted the Powers and Privileges Act is to make sure that whenever we have issues, differences or what we perceive as misconduct by a Member in this House or outside the Chambers, we deal with it as a House. This is an arm of Government. The Constitution created three arms of Government. There is the Judiciary, Executive and Legislature. You can even see that the Judiciary is fighting the prosecution of the Deputy Chief Justice (DCJ) because they feel that they are an independent institution. The same should apply to Parliament. Let us not subject ourselves to another arm of Government. That could be abused. We need to exercise our freedom freely. That takes me to issues that affect the counties. They are shameful. There is need for clarity such that whatever happens in county assemblies is handled within the county assemblies. In my county, a good number of MCAs were dragged to court in Kisumu County and charged for things that happened in the county assembly. If we go that way, we compromise the independence of the legislative arm of Government, both at the national level and at the county level. It is my hope and prayer that counties will also find a way of handling their matters within the powers and privileges of their county assemblies. If they do not have enough instruments in terms of legislation, we need to initiate some legislation to cushion counties from being subjected to unnecessary dragging into another arm of Government either through the Senate or the National Assembly. Finally, those other arms of Government sometimes act in a very funny manner. Our courts sometimes have refused to apply simple constitutional provisions. There is a case that happened over a month ago within the assembly. A judge tried to remand the MCAs for 14 days for further investigations. What are you investigating if there was a fight? There was a fight. There are witnesses. This is an abuse of power by the judges. I will table a substantive Motion to discuss such a judge if she continues behaving the way she is. You cannot just wake up and say that you are remanding someone for 14 days because they fought. It can be seen when people are fighting. You do not need any further investigations. This is something that has taken over a month just because a few people talked to the judge in her house and told her to remand certain people ili iwe funzo kwa watu wengine . That is not the way to run the Judiciary or to implement our Constitution."
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