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    "id": 862093,
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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, over and over again, we have insisted in this House that summonses of Parliament are not debatable. You can come and debate the subject matter. You can think of how you will answer the questions for we cannot force you to give an answer that is tailor made for this House but appearing before the Committee of this House is not debatable. We passed that stage a long time ago. We had the first term governors, and I do not want to mention their names, who gave us lecturers on how the Senate was too small for them to appear but we sorted that issue a long time ago. No wonder, many governors are now attending the sessions of the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments because that was where the contention was. I was shocked when I was informed that a Governor of a party that I belong to and a man that we have tremendous respect to, for he forms part and parcel of the leadership of this country and the Jubilee party, would even contemplate defying orders of this House when you are seated there as the Speaker of the Republic of Kenya. You must take that thing seriously. When Article 125 of the Constitution says that we have the powers of the High Court, it means that we do not need to resort to the High Court to summon someone. It also means that violation of those summonses leads directly to a situation where you are arrested and charged. The question of explaining whether the summonses were delivered in good time and whether you were served with the summonses or whether you had the notice will then be canvassed in court and at that point in time, you will be facing criminal charges. In fact, even a Member of another House including a county assembly can be summoned by this House and a Member of this House can also be summoned by the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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