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    "id": 901345,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/901345/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Chris Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "We have a bicameral system and we are here as brothers particularly for purposes of checks and balances. We know that very well. In this organisation, we have been having the Joint Services. The Joint Services means they are being shared between the National Assembly and the Senate. We have been having the Director General who has been heading this and it is true he has not been an accounting officer but we have a secretary in the meaning of Chapter 15 of the Constitution because this is an independent Commission. For consistency, to be like other independent commissions, it should be left to do its job. The Constitution has gone further to specify that the Chair of Parliamentary Service Commission will be none other than the Speaker of the National Assembly. There was a meaning in that. Why did they not say any Speaker? It was specific. It went further to say that the Secretary of that Commission shall be the Clerk of the Senate. It never said the Clerk of the National Assembly. It is very unfortunate that we can The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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