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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am saying this because from the Chair respectfully, you are adding more confusion to a very confused situation. That is why I agree with Sen. G.G. Kariuki that the Public Gallery is always open to the public. That is the fundamental principle. The introductions that the Speakers normally make are when you are on the Speaker’s Gallery on invitation. When you are acknowledging the presence of guests in the Chamber, they see you and you see them. However, if there is a group that is sitting in the Public Gallery that wants to be or should be introduced, then you should be notified well in advance. There is an important principle that Sen. G.G. Kariuki is making; that the Public Gallery is always open to the public. Indeed, any Kenyan who has a national identification card to identify himself or herself and prove that he or she is not a security risk, need not be introduced and can sit in the Public Gallery anytime the Senate is in session. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was getting a bit worried because one time I went to a meeting in Nigeria where there were so many traditional rulers, Senators and former Presidents. When a Prime Minister was making a speech and every time somebody arrived, he had to stop the speech. He would say:- “Excuse me, there arrives the Igwe from Kano State with his entourage and they must be acknowledged.” We were told that if he did not do so, there would be a big problem. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, literally, it is not possible for the Speaker to introduce everybody who goes to the Public Gallery. However, if anybody wants visitors seated in the Public Gallery to be introduced, he should go out of his way to tell the Serjeant-at-Arms in very specific terms that so and so or a group of people are not just coming to the Public Gallery, but you would like them to be acknowledged. That is the precedent that has been there in Parliament over the ages and even now."
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