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    "id": 965442,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. that the authority of this House is being undermined every day. There is something like compounding an offense; if we continue acting like nothing has happened, then we are compounding the infraction of Article 110(3) of the Constitution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I appeal that the Speaker invokes Article 110(3) of the Constitution, for which we have proceedings before the Court. The current Constitution requires everybody and all the institutions to abide by the Constitution and the rule of law. The area of ethos, as covered in the Report of the BBI, is a repetition of what is there in the preamble, Article 10, principle and values of governance, the principles around public finance and principles around devolution. We cannot continue as if nothing is happening. I am sure that somebody in the other House is saying that, “They have no alternative when the Bills go there. They will have to pass them. What they think does not matter.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Office of the Senate Majority Leader is so important, and it is only second to that of the Speaker. When the other House does not cooperate, it is his Office that should show or demonstrate that the House is not working in harmony and in coherence, as expected by the Constitution. Therefore, I plead with you, under Standing Order 154, that we should withdraw this Bill until we get to a point where we can do a proper housekeeping between us. That will go a long way in trying to correct these constant constitutional violations, which include the principle of constitutionalism. There is a story about the Speaker of the House of Commons, when the King of England wanted to arrest some Members of the House. That time it was absolute monarchy and the Speaker just said---"
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