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    "id": 1001637,
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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": "But Members must be aware that the laws we make here cut both sides. When we were passing the Parliamentary Service Act, a majority of Members were not present. That was the day we missed it as political parties. It is we who passed that Section 10 of the Act, not the Speaker. We are the same ones who passed Fair Administrative Action Act. The irony, and I agree with Hon. Junet, is how political parties nominate and, just by a mere Motion we adopt in this House, we give you a job as one of our trade unionists. But to remove you, we have to climb Mount Kenya. For sure, I can say that Hon. Junet, whether you issue judicial orders or not, you have work cut for you. To be very frank, it is not a birthday cake that you can just get easily. However, as political parties, we will go back to the drawing board. Hon. Junet, you know we are legislators. We shall go back to the drawing board. We can even bring an amendment to the PSC Act. We can bring an amendment to it tomorrow. Since the President signed it into law, it is past six months. We can amend Section 10 of the PSC Act. We can also bring the threshold for approval. However, there are other things which I also picked. It is good that all that we do, we do it within the confines of the Constitution. Unlike Hon. Junet when he was de-whipping people, he used very heavy language which is a violation of the Constitution and gross misconduct. I advise our new Whip not to go that route. This is because to prove violation of the Constitution or gross misconduct, we will have to take a whole week. So, let us use light words like that the party which gave you a job has decided on this and that or that you have served us well, and now we want to give a chance to another Member. However, I think Hon. Junet, Hon. Mbadi and all those who are in the leadership need to go back to the drawing board. The Speaker has given a very good Communication. We need to read it word for word. We also need to read the one for last week. I tell Members, that it is not only the ruling of Hon. Speaker Muturi, but also look for the rulings of Speaker Marende, Kaparo and the other Speakers because they become part of our Standing Orders – precedence in terms of ruling of the Speakers. I think we are really happy today that … I think the one for last week was around 18 pages. Today’s Ruling was about 20 pages. Tomorrow, those of us who are interested should just pick a copy from Table Office. I will also ask the Clerk to send the Ruling, together with the other documents that you usually send us on Fridays, so that Members would not need to carry papers. If you do that, they can then read them online. I support."
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