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    "speaker_name": "The Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Order, Sen. Maina! Order Senators! Allow me to say the following. There has been a bit of lamentations about the powers of the Senate. Article 125 (1) of the Constitution states and I quote:- “Either House of parliament” and that includes the Senate “and any of its committees” including the Committee, you chair, Sen. Maina - you are the one who said how powers were eroded I do not know where - has the power to summon any person” - any person means any person any is any and there are no exemptions - not to write or telephone, but to appear “before it”. It does not mean to appear elsewhere before the Committee or the House of Parliament concerned “for the purpose of giving evidence and providing information.” For those hon. Members who were here in the last Parliament, you saw how that can be taken. The law even allows criminal consequences for violation of Article 125 of the Constitution. There is one governor who survived narrowly because of a technicality. The law allows any defiant person to be subjected to the organs of State, produced in court and charged with a crime and jailed. He was actually arraigned in court and there were some injunctions this way or that way. Hon. Members, the point is that we cannot spend time with people who feel that this House cannot do this or that. There are no two laws in this country. There is only one Constitution. Let us use it and let us do what the law has allowed us to do."
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