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    "id": 883367,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support. In supporting, I want us to remind ourselves that the Principles of Devolved Governments under Article 175 are bases on the principles of separation of powers so that the county executive and the assemblies each have their powers enumerated in the Constitution. Nobody should ever think that you can dissolve a county assembly. Probably, it is possible to impeach a governor by extension, remove a county executive but you cannot by any legal mechanism dissolve a county assembly other than through the process of suspension and dissolution of the entire county government. Those who are trying to interfere with the work of the county assembly, do not know what they are doing. County assemblies are part of the legislature at the county level just as much as we are the legislature at the national level. Therefore, I would wish to give my support to the distinguished Member from Mombasa County and tell him that this is work that the county assembly must and should do in oversighting the County Executive and most of the County Executive Committee (CEC) members. Therefore, let the people of Mombasa County know that we stand with the county assembly because representation at the county level is firmly based on having those county assemblies as legislatures. The county executive, although a separate arm of government - representation and the devolved unit is really enforced by the existence of county assemblies. I hope the people and the County Executive in Mombasa County should realise that county assemblies in the order of things, are superior to the County Executive. Just in as much as at the national level, Parliament is superior to the Executive and the Judiciary. If you look at the architecture of our Constitution, Parliament comes first, the Executive and then the Judiciary. Although they are separate and equal, but in the order of hierarchy, the Legislature is first amongst equals."
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