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    "content": "Total Votes – 317 Hon. Members, allow me to take this opportunity to also speak to the conduct of Members taking part in the virtual Sittings of the House. When the House amended the Standing Orders to provide for virtual participation, the intention of the House was to ensure that no Member desirous of partaking proceedings of the House on any matter is excluded on account of not being physically present in the House. Indeed, Part XXVIII (A) of the Standing Orders (Conduct of Proceedings in Exceptional Circumstances) is explicitly clear on virtual proceedings. I wish to remind Hon. Members that the august House is a House of rules and that every Member has a duty to observe the rules of procedure and decorum. Suffice to say that the role of a legislator is hallowed and therefore, it ought not to be exercised in multiplicity with third parties at one time. In this regard, I wish to caution the Member for South Mugirango, the Hon. Silvanus Osoro, MP, who abused the privilege of participating virtually by voting in the company of a crowd. This conduct was not in keeping with the decorum of the House. While I permitted the Clerk to record his vote, let it be clear to the House that, neither such manner of voting nor the conduct by Hon. Osoro shall be permitted in subsequent virtual proceedings. In view of the foregoing, Hon. Members, and pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No. 75, I have directed the Clerk to make the necessary corrections to the records of the House to reflect the corrections I have made. Thus the House is accordingly informed. I thank you, Hon. Members."
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