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    "id": 9293,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/9293/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "The practice that my learned Senior Counsel is attempting to introduce now undermines the very principle upon which this House has debated constitutional amendments since Independence. Therefore, as long as the Bill contains more than one constitutional amendment, it does not comply with our traditions and usages, as we have known them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the third aspect that I referred to is that this amendment undermines and breaches the principle of separation of power that the Constitution of Kenya recognises. Whereas we, in this House, are Government by a specific article of the Constitution, the Judiciary also has provisions in the Constitution that insulate it against any form of control or influence from any authority, including this House. Article 160(1) says as follows:- “In the exercise of judicial authority, the Judiciary, as constituted by Article 161, shall be subject only to this Constitution and the law and shall not be subject to the control or direction of any person or authority.”"
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