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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "know that it is “by the way.” We need to let other Members know that opinio curia is is used when you are talking about something without regard to the facts. This is because the only languages in this House are English and Kiswahili. I was looking around and saw quite a number of Senators - I will not mention them by name - with looks of bewilderment of what language it was that we had gone into suddenly. Secondly, let me reiterate that we are really looking forward for your determination. I hope that as the Senate Minority Leader has said, it is not a by the way determination, but needs to be substantive because of the position you hold and the knowledge that you possess. On the issue of Bills and matters concerning counties, the reason Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and I have published a Bill that is being debated in this House, is because for the last six years majority of the laws that have been passed in this is country have not adhered to this provision of the Constitution. It was very disheartening yesterday - I caught it by mistake in my office before I left to come to the Chamber - when I heard Members of the National Assembly questioning the intelligence or the wisdom of Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., and myself in publishing a Bill that gives effect to the constitutional provision. The pedestrian intervention was that, why would you publish a Bill when the Constitution already says what it is? Little do they know that actually Acts of Parliament give life to those provisions. It says that before either House considers any Bill, the Speakers of the National Assembly and the Senate must jointly resolve---."
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