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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "handle, instead of him replying, his beautiful wife started twitting and replying to me but I did not respond because my wife is not on twitter . She is busy taking care of my children. I told her: “Now next time, I will ask my son to reply.” The Governors were duped. They were told that they would be given money and then they went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court was an even more crazy action. If the Chief Justice can give you money, I am sure – and I have tabled his budget here – the Judiciary wants more resources. The Chief Justice could have given himself money. So, what the Chief Justice, for whom I have a lot of respect, said was: “This matter is not in my domain. Go back to the House and agree.” From the Floor of this House, I want to tell the Chief Justice that we agreed and on 16th September 2019, he will be given a report by the Litigation Department of the National Assembly that we have given the counties money. The Chief Justice kept on telling them: “You are in the wrong place. I do not play a role in the distribution of resources in this country. Mine is to interpret the law.” So, I think the Senate needs to be focussed. Let me come to the serious matter raised by the Chair. I am a Member of the Mediation Committee, and I have signed this Report. I participated in the writing of the Mediation Report yesterday. In both plenary and committees of parliament in every parliamentary democracy, the HANSARD is the official record of the House. Today if you want to know what the late Tom Mboya or Mzee Jomo Kenyatta said when he was in this august House, you just need to go to the HANSARD Room. You will not just see the written, but you can hear their voices. Hon. Speaker, you remember last year when we had the Value Added Tax matter where people said that Hon. Soipan made a different pronouncement, you went to the HANSARD and listened. Right now, if Hon. Baya wants to listen to what he said two months ago, he will get it both scripted and he will hear his voice. The HANSARD of yesterday’s deliberation is here, and it is the Legal Officer who said: “Mr. Chairman, we should have a commencement date in any Act of Parliament. This is in tandem with Article 116 of the Constitution. That is why we are introducing an amendment to Clause 1.” That is what the Legal Officer said. The Vice-Chair and the Chairman of the Committee on Finance in the Senate, Sen. Mohamud, is a man I respect. We served with him in the 10th Parliament. He said: “We did not have a commencement date on the original Bill before?” The Legal Officer said, “No”. The Vice-Chair said, “Then going forward, do you think it is necessary to have that every time?” The Legal Officer said, “Yes, Hon. Members. You recall the Bill that was passed by the National Assembly, which we amended to read “Upon publication” the presumption, was that the Bill was going to pass before 1st July and now we have passed it beyond 1st July.” Then the Vice-Chair said, “Okay. Can we proceed? Put it.” 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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