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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join you in welcoming the two schools from Bomet and Muindi Bingu Secondary School. I agree with the Senate Majority Leader. It is sad that way back in 2013, the Senate sought an advisory opinion and it was agreed that there should be concurrence. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in Article 109 of the Constitution on exercise of legislative powers, legislative powers have been bestowed on Parliament. For the purposes of those people who advise the President, Parliament means the Senate and the National Assembly. May be, they did not pay attention to that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, further, Article 116(1) states that:- ―A Bill passed by Parliament and assented to by the President shall be published in the gazette as an Act of Parliament within seven days after assent‖. I agree with my colleagues that the word is ‗Parliament‘. It does not say the National Assembly. Therefore, it was unfair to advise the President to sign into law a Bill that the Senate did not have an input in. This must come to a stop. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we expect that through the guidance of the House and yourself, the Senate must take a position because it is not a page boy or a flower girl in the process of legislative or of its powers. The powers of the Senate and the role that the Senate has in this country has been captured well in Article 96 of the Constitution of Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I emphasis and request that, upon your guidance and that of the Committee of Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights--- we must give direction because there are many laws that have been assented to without the input of this House. We also have some regulations such as Election Regulations that we discussed today in the morning."
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