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    "id": 901476,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "In fact, we are so important that we cannot go to a Magistrates Court to determine issue to do with the Senate. We cannot go to the High Court. We have to go to the Supreme Court for advisory opinion. I urge every lawyer in this Chamber, in the Senate, including the Senate Majority Leader – when we go to the Supreme Court, the first speech will be made by the Senate Majority Leader while fully robed. The Speaker will be sitting there, even with these robes to show that in the Senate we also have our President. In the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice is known as the President, other than being the Chief Justice. In other jurisdictions, we should, be calling you the President in contradistinction with the Speaker of the National Assembly. Those who have read history of antiquity about the old Rome and the position conferred on the Senate, the Senate is a very important institution historically. It is not like an assembly. The Senate had executive authority in the old Rome. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want you to be courageous and brave like all of us. All roads should lead to the Supreme Court. We cannot go through Mr. Omtatah. That, the Leader of Majority can go to Mr. Omtatah to tell him we have a small problem here and you are the Leader of Majority is not proper. Equally, I as a Senior Counsel to take my problems to Mr. Omtatah is not right, although I respect him very much. The only way is by resolution; we should have a Kamukunji, sit down, and agree on how to do it. My Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights is doing very well. I see how he interrogates people whenever we have institutions of Government coming before us. Sometimes we have had judges and institutions coming before you, and now this time, we want you, because you are also a practicing lawyer, we go to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kenya and determine this thing once and for all. We should take an inventory of all the laws that have been passed without our participation and have them declared unconstitutional, null and void."
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