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    "speaker_name": "The Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Hon. Senators, you will recall I had promised to issue further clarification on the issue of injunctions last week. I beg your pardon because this should have come a little earlier but I hope it is not too late to discharge my duty. Hon. Senators, during the sitting of the Senate on Thursday, 17th October, 2019, I gave a ruling on the extent to which the activities in the Judiciary impact on Parliament, specifically, regarding the application and implications of the sub judice rule in Standing Order No.98 and the concomitant issue of courts injuncting Parliament. My ruling emanated from interventions made by Sen. Mwaruma of Taita-Taveta County and later on by Sen. M. Kajwang’ of Homa Bay who had unsuccessfully sought my intervention to stop further proceedings of this House in the ongoing matter of the removal from office by impeachment, of Hon. Granton Samboja, the Governor of Taita- Taveta County. While I exhausted the issue of the sub judice principle and how it applies in the relationship between Parliament and the Judiciary as independent arms of Government, regarding the second issue of injunctions, I promised to give further directions or clarifications which I hereby do. As sought by various Senators who rose on points of order after my ruling, in fact, there was a barrage of points of order that afternoon, including the Senate Majority Leader, who represents Elgeyo-Marakwet County. Hon. Senators, past Speakers of Parliament have ruled before, which rulings I fully concur with, that the constitutional mandate and autonomy of Parliament must be guarded jealously if our legal system and democracy is to be given full and faithful effect. I have stated several times before that no person, entity, authority or institution other than the institution of the people themselves acting directly through a referendum The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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