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    "id": 892020,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/892020/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is a very sad moment. The Statutory Instruments Act allows the CS to forward regulations to the National Assembly and not the Senate. Those are the powers given to the CS and it is not the other way round. The Senate wants the CS to consult the National Assembly and the Senate. In my view, the Senate wants to get powers. They do not have the Committee on Delegated Legislation. They want to get powers through the back door but we are very much alive to the provisions of the Statutory Instruments Act. If they want powers, they should become Members of the National Assembly. The instruments-making powers in the counties lie with the committee on delegated legislation in the county assembly. The only powers they have are that, if they see a number of counties with different instruments, then they can say: “Why can you not harmonise?” The Senate does not have the powers to make and approve statutory instruments. It is the county assemblies of the various counties. This is another area where the legal department of the Senate has failed. You must advise the Senators that this cannot happen. Otherwise, in the next election, let them contest as Members of Parliament if they want to have powers in terms of legislation."
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