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    "id": 977072,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Luanda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Christopher Omulele",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. Mine is really to raise a constitutional point on this particular Bill and whether this House should even consider it at all. I rise on this point because of the delineation of the different mandates of the different Houses as defined under Schedule 4 of our Constitution. My reading of Schedule 4, particularly Part (1) thereof sets out the national Government mandate and Paragraph 18 particularly speaks to transport, communication, including and in particular - these are not my words, but words of the Constitution itself - roads traffic. It says the construction and operation of national track roads standards for the construction and maintenance of other roads by counties… Therefore, it is there. This is a mandate of the national Government. I have perused this Bill and it purports to set standards for the construction of roadways, parkways and other public amenities which speaks to this particular provision and mandate of the national Government. It is my considered opinion, and I stand to be corrected, that this is a mandate that is not available to my brother, Sen. Ledama ole kina, the Senator for Narok, as he has proposed under this Bill. Therefore, I am raising this point as a constitutional point for your determination that this is a Bill that does not need to consume the time of this time as we are now doing. We should set it aside under constitutional consideration, so that we may take on other matters that are more relevant for consideration by this House. This Bill offends the separation of mandates under the Constitution. I, therefore, seek your direction on this one."
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